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Exordium, 3-10 

Section I. The Gift and Gifts, . r . . 11-49 

Section II. Spiritual Graces, . . . . 50-77 

Peroration, 78-83 



Now concerning Spiritual Gifts, brethren, I would not 
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We rejoice that we are able to give our readers the fol- 
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His varied and wide experience as an Author, Pastor, 
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lator, makes the book one of rare interest. He speaks " As 
one having authority," and not as do some of his critics. 

That he is the possessor of the Gifts and Graces herein 
magnified, none who know him well will deny. 

His loyalty to Christ and His church; his faithfulness 
to the high trusts committed to him ; his humility under 
the honors conferred; his great success under God as an 
Evangelist, and the remarkable degree of his ft Gift of In- 
terpretation" of original Greek, all bespeak for this, his 
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former books have received. 

May the Spirit which has led the author and publisher 
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SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 



EXORDIUM. 



I wrote my book on baptism to lead the people beyond 
the water-line, so they might climb up Mt. Zion and re- 
ceive the Pentecostal baptism of fire; since all w r ho stop 
on the water-line, in the end, lose their souls. Religion 
is not ritualism, morality, philanthropy, nor churchian- 
ity, but spirituality. I wrote my other books not only 
to convert sinners, but more especially to lead Christians 
into the sweet and glorious experience of entire sanc- 
tification, and to establish them in holiness. Conse- 
quently, my writings have been mainly to the justified. 
But this book I address to the sanctified in order to util- 
ize them as soul-savers. It is a shame on the escutcheon 
of the Christian church that she has been so inefficient 
in the verification of the greatest of all the command- 
ments, delivered unto her by her ascended Lord; i. e., 
"Go disciple all nations." The English version reads 
erroneously: "Teach all nations." That is too weak a 
translation for the Greek "matheteusate" which means, 
make disciples. You can't make a disciple of a man 
without converting his soul. After he is converted he 
needs sanctification to keep him converted. Hence the 
great w T ork of the church is to convert and sanctify the 
world. Our Lord's plan is to save the world through the 
church. It is of primary importance that our own souls 
be saved. As God is no respecter of persons all souls 

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4 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACKS. 

are equally precious and valuable in His sight. Hence 
the great end for which He saved us, is that we may 
save others. General Booth, Bishop Taylor, Amanda 
Smith and many others have been instrumental in the 
salvation of multiplied thousands. Our good works are 
not the condition of our salvation, but they constitute 
the measure of our reward in heaven. In the glorified 
state, all are perfectly happy and free from sorrow, but 
all are not equally happy nor equally glorious. We read 
in 1 Gor. 15, that there will be a diversity in the glorified 
state similar to that of the stars which shine in the fir- 
mament. Unassisted vision discovers sixteen distinct 
stellar magnitudes. With the aid of the telescope we 
discover a thousand different magnitudes; consequently, 
the Pauline argument involves the conclusion that some 
of the Lord's saints in heaven will be a thousand times 
more glorious than others. It will be a wonderful 
achievement to get there; but will we not regret through 
all eternity that we did not take more with us to glory? 
We have no assurance that we will ever enjoy another 
harvest so fruitful in any other world in all the ages of 
eternity. Hence myriad incentives — heaven-born — -in- 
spire us night and day to spend and be spent, helping 
Jesus to save a lost world. Twenty-five millions annu- 
ally sweep into eternity. Hell, with open mouth and 
dragon teeth, is devouring hopeless myriads daily. No 
wonder David Livingstone walked through the Dark 
Continent alone thirty-three years, fearless of flooded 
rivers, rugged mountains, boa-constrictors, crocodiles, 
lions, and cannibals; when he kept his eye on the Son 
of God, who left the brightness of celestial glory for this 
dark world, there to roam friendless and homeless thirty- 
three years, and give his life a ransom for the lost mil- 



EXORDIUM. 5 

lions of Adam's race. Livingstone's arm was broken by 
a lion, Jesus was crucified by the preachers and officers 
of the Jewish Church. 

Who can read the Bible, hear the thunders of Sinai, look 
upon*the cross of Calvary, and survey the world with a 
thousand millions for whom Jesus died, blindly hurry- 
ing into a bottomless hell, and not feel an electric shock 
of incorrigible enthusiasm to run to the rescue? But 
this is no child's play. Satan with the panoplied armies 
of earth and hell will confront you at every point of the 
compass. He retreats only at the point of the bayonet. 
You must be brave enough "to run through a troop and 
leap over a wall." Cowards have no business in the 
Lord's w T ar. God, in the Bible, positively commands us 
to send them away when the battle is coming up lest 
they demoralize others. Entire sanctification, whose 
glorious upper side is perfect love, settles the problem 
by casting out fear. When Lucifer, the archangel, fell 
from the heavenly state one-third of all the angels fol- 
lowed in the fatal apostasy. (Rev. 12.) The demoni- 
acal Gadarene had a legion of devils in him. Mary Mag- 
dalene had seven devils. Paul in Eph. 2, pronounced 
Satan the prince of the power of the air. Hence from 
these Scriptures we conclude that the very atmosphere 
is thronged with demoniacal armies. We need the shield 
of sanctifying faith every moment to quench the mis- 
siles which they constantly hurl at us, flaming with hell- 
fire. Satan conquered the world in his first campaign in 
Eden, when he took captive the king and queen of hu- 
manity. God recognizes this sad fact (2 Cor. 4: 4), 
when He pronounces Satan the god of this world. Be- 
sides this mighty embattled host of devils, far more nu- 
merous than the whole human race, all the sinners in 



6 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

the world, not only the rough but the genteel, the dis- 
loyal church members and occupants of the pulpit, are 
subsidized and utilized by these demoniacal soldiers for 
the damnation of the world. The universal presence of 
these demons has superinduced the popular opinion that 
Satan is omnipresent, which is untrue. Satan is a finite 
being, like man and angel. God alone is omnipresent. 
Satan's lightning locomotion (Luke 10: 18) with the co- 
operation of his demoniacal armies belting the globe and 
filling the atmosphere, has rendered him practically om- 
nipresent. How are we to prosecute the war against 
this (humanly speaking) invincible foe? 

NEGATIVELY. 

Not by intellectual power and human eloquence. As 
a rule the most intellectual people are not the most effi- 
cient soul-savers. A prominent doctor of divinity told 
me that in a ministry of thirty years he did not know 
that he had been instrumental in saving a soul. It is 
not by human learning. General observation confirms 
the conclusion that preachers who have received a col- 
legiate education, as a class, are the most inefficient soul- 
savers. Twenty -five years ago, General Booth, preach- 
ing on the streets of London, eloquently vociferating his 
sanguine visions of the coming Salvation Army to con- 
quer the world for Christ, when asked by a bystander 
" Where will you get your preachers? " the man of God 
pointed to the saloons and said, "We will get them there." 

POSITIVELY. 

We are to conquer the world with the panoply of the 
Holy Ghost. When our Savior organized the apostolic 
ministry He had access to the colleges and universities 



EXORDIUM. 7 

of the world. He could at His option have gathered 
around Him the elite and cultured from Rabbinical and 
philosophical circles, and commissioned them to preach 
His gospel. But He passed them all by and called the 
illiterate peasantry from their fishing-tackles along the 
sea of Galilee, and the publicans held in contempt by 
the aristocracy. The New Testament says they were 
unlearned and ignorant men. He shook the city of 
Sychar by the preaching of a converted harlot. He cast 
seven devils out of Mary Magdalene, baptized her with 
fire, and sent her out to preach His gospel. Out of thir- 
teen inspired apostles we have the writings of only five, 
and a number of those epistles by amenuenses. Why 
this delinquency to commit their gospel to w r riting? 
Doubtless mainly because they could not write. They 
were ignorant of dictionary and grammar. They had 
not paralyzed their nerves by long years of assiduous 
study to master a collegiate curriculum; neither had 
they worn out their voices. With nerves like galvanic 
batteries, muscles like steamboat cables, and voices like 
thunder, these sons of thunder with the physical hardi- 
hood giant-like, went forth to conquer the world. One 
out of the thirteen, Saul of Tarsus, was, perhaps, the 
most learned man in the w r orld, being a double graduate, 
having graduated in the Greek schools of Tarsus and in 
the Hebrew schools of Jerusalem. Here we have a fac- 
simile of the gospel ministry; i. <?., ope learned teacher 
to twelve unlearned preachers. 

A band of sanctified women peregrinated a Southern 
city, preaching on the streets during the day and in a 
hall at night. They chanced to preach in front of a sa- 
loon. The lightning of God's fiery message struck the 
proprietor across his counter. He darts out at a back 



8 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

door, rutfs home, tells his wife he is converted, prays in 
his family, runs back to his saloon and pours out his 
whiskey, follows the women to their meeting and there 
preaches his first sermon, is soon afterwards gloriously 
sanctified and has been preaching ever since. The Sal- 
vation Army is raising up a kingdom out of the slums 
and jungles. Many of the most efficient preachers in 
the world to-day are sanctified drunkards and harlots. 

When in Denver, Colo., I knew a doctor of divinity with 
a big salary, in a fine church edifice, preaching to thirty 
people Sunday morning and night. I also made the ac- 
quaintance of an eloquent, blood-washed, fire-baptized 
little woman who had been recently saved in slums 
preaching daily, without a salary, to about six hundred on 
the streets. So here the woman without remuneration 
preached to an audience of four thousand two hundred 
per week, while the man with a large salary preached to 
sixty per week. 

Man is a trinity like God, consisting of soul, mind, 
and body. The body is not the man, but the house in 
which he lives. The mind is not the man, but his me- 
dium of connection with the body and the world. But 
the soul; i. e., spirit or heart is the man himself. In the 
fall the body did not fall totally, for in that case it would 
have become a corpse. But it fell partially; i. <?., be- 
came subject to disease and death. If the mind had to- 
tally fallen man wquld have become idiotic. However, 
the fall of the mind was much more fatal than that of 
the body. Adam had the power of perfect diagnosis and 
discrimination before he fell. In the fall that perfect 
mental equilibrium and perspicacity were racked and 
disturbed, so that darkness beclouded the intellect and 
we study all our lives, and die without as much knowl- 



EXORDIUM. 9 

edge as we would have accumulated in a few days in the 
unfallen state. God said to Adam: "In the day thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Hence, spiritual 
death; i. <?., the utter forfeiture of divine life out of the 
soul supervened the very moment they sinned. Man 
educates the mind, but God educates the soul. We need 
spiritual education to impower us to conquer evil spirits 
and save the world. 

John Wesley was a trichotomist; i. e. y he taught the 
trinity of humanity. Popular theology, both in our 
schools and pulpits, erroneously teaches the dichotomy 
of humanity. The result is, the human spirit, which is 
the man himself, is left out of the curriculum. Since 
the apostasy of the church from the doctrine and ex- 
perience as taught by the apostles, she has been sending 
out her intellectual armies to fight the devil, but Diabolis 
is more intellectual than all the human race, hence he 
has an easy victory over us on intellectual lines. But 
Satan and all of his hosts are utterly dead spiritually; £ 
e., utterly destitute of spiritual life, light, and power. 

THK APOSTASY. 

If Satan had not succeeded in derailing the church 
from the grand Pentecostal, apostolic track of entire 
sanctification, the world would have been converted long 
ago. Arianism, Mohammedanism, and Roman Catholi- 
cism, which have blighted the hopes of 'humanity for the 
last fifteen hundred years would never have been born. 
But the millenium, with all its glory, would have illumi- 
nated and celestialized the world centuries before you 
and I were born. But instead of God's millenium Satan 
managed to bring in his millenium; i. f., the Dark Ages, 
which deluged the w r orld with ignorance, crime, desola- 



10 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

tion, bloodshed, and death. God used Luther and his 
compeers to restore the long lost gospel of justification, 
by the free grace of God in Christ, received and appro- 
priated by faith alone. Independently of ritualistic and 
priestly intervention he used John Wesley and his coad- 
jutors to restore the Christian secret of a happy life, or 
the glorious doctrine and sweet experience of entire 
sanctification. "But there is still much territory to be 
conquered," especially in the department of biblical ex- 
egesis. 

Satan from the beginning has laid all of his wonder- 
ful sagacity under contribution to disarm; i. e., take 
the Bible, the sword, from the church. Through his 
intriguing priests and blind preachers he has filled the 
pulpits of the fallen churches w T ith labored, learned, and 
ingenious sermons to convince the people that much of 
the Bible has been fulfilled, and the balance will be ful- 
filled in the disembodied state. Know this, reader, the 
Bible is neither for worlds bygone nor for the world to 
come. But it is a present glorious reality ; it is a now 
book, and must go through your heart if you go to 
heaven. A bogus gospel says: "The age of miracles is 
past." It is easy to say it but impossible to prove it. 
Doubtless, greater miracles will attend the second com- 
ing of Christ (for which we are constantly on the look- 
out) than bygone generations have ever witnessed. 



SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 

SECTION I. 

The gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2: 38) is the Holy 
Ghost Himself, He is our sanctifier. Hence the gift of 
the Holy Ghost is entire sanctification. A popular her- 
esy on sanctification is to make it the ultimatum of all 
progress. It is more properly the foundation of a glori- 
ous Christian character, which shall brighten with in- 
creasing beauty and glory through the lapse of eternal 
ages. 

Sanctification by the incoming and abiding of the 
Holy Ghost is the completion of our personal salvation 
from sin. The man rescued out of the flooded Missis- 
sippi is prepared to rescue his drowning comrade. God 
has saved us, not merely that we may go up and enjoy 
heaven forever, but that we shall be fellow-laborers with 
His Son to save a lost world. But He has left us with- 
out excuse, having furnished us all the panoply we need, 
so that "one shall chase a thousand, and two shall put 
ten thousand to flight. " This promise was literally ver- 
ified in case of Gideon's three hundred braves, who put 
to flight three hundred thousand Midianites. While the 
gift of the Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost Himself re- 
ceived as a purifier and abiding comforter in the glorious 

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12 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

experience of entire sanctification, the gifts of the Holy 
Ghost constitute the Christian's panoply with which he 
is to conquer Satan and save the world from hell. So 
we are saved by the gift, but we save others by the 
gifts. 

Is it my privilege, Bro. Godbey, to possess all of 
these gifts? Most assuredly. God does not mock us. 
1 Cor. 12: 31. "Covet earnestly the best gifts." The 
more literal reading, "Seek earnestly the greater gifts.' » 
"Greater," as applied to these wonderful and extraordi- 
nary gifts bestowed on the sanctified, is antethetical to 
"less," as applied to the gifts of conviction, repentance, 
faith, justification, and regeneration bestowed by the 
Holy Ghost on sinners to bring them into the kingdom. 

HOLINESS PEOPLE. 

Take heed and govern yourselves accordingly. A 
fallen church has hidden these glorious gifts under a 
bushel the last fifteen hundred years. God has raised up 
the holiness people to rescue every item of the long lost 
gospel and preach it to the world. If we obey this com- 
mandment, "Seek the greater gifts," we will conquer 
the world for Christ. If we neglect the Spirit's pano- 
ply and depend on human learning, intellect, eloquence, 
money, and popularity, Satan and the world will conquer 
us as they have conquered our predecessors. (1 Cor. 
12: 8-11.) There you find a catalogue of these spiritual 
gifts; i. e. y wisdom, knowledge, faith, divine healing, mir- 
acles, prophecy, discernment of spirits, tongues, and in- 
terpretation of tongues. Now, reader, it is your glori- 
ous privilege and your imperative duty to receive, appro- 
priate, and utilize all of these gifts with an eye single to 
the glory of God and the salvation of the world. 



THF GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 13 

1. WISDOM. 

The old prophet says, " He that winneth souls is wise." 
James says, "If any man lack wisdom let him ask of 
God, who giveth unto all liberally, and upbraideth not." 
Wisdom is sanctified common sense. As the colored 
preacher said, "It is sanctifigumption." Wisdom is the 
right use of knowledge; i. <?., spiritual elasticity. With- 
out this gift we will be always doing good in the wrong 
way, and thus defeating the end in view. There is a 
gracious possibility of reaching every soul who has not 
actually crossed the dead line, and consequently aban- 
doned by the Holy Spirit if we could only approach him 
in the right way. This gift of wisdom gloriously sup- 
plies all our deficiencies as to ways and means. This- 
gift, along with others, constitutes the rationale of the 
wonderful adroitness of some people in soul-saving. 
When a circuit rider, twenty-five years ago, I explored 
a nice Blue-grass neighborhood on the border of my cir- 
cuit, remote from any church edifice. The people were 
prosperous in everything but salvation. They were with- 
out hope and without God in the world, and frolicking 
their way down to destruction. I went among them, 
showing myself friendly, visiting from house to house 
and preaching in their school-house. Meanwhile, I 
everywhere persuaded them to erect a church edifice, 
promising to furnish them an efficient Sunday-school 
leader, and telling them what a glorious thing it would 
be to have a magnificent Sunday-school running the 
year round. I also told them I would preach in their 
house and prevail on other preachers to do likewise. 
They became enthused with the idea of having a meet- 
ing-house in their midst, where they could all attend 



14 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

Sunday-school and preaching so conveniently. Conse- 
quently, all hands rallied, and soon the passer-by was 
surprised to see a beautiful church edifice shining by 
the wayside. Those ungodly people actually built that 
church edifice for a Sunday club-house, where they could 
all meet every Sunday and have a jolly time. I im- 
ported a good religious man about ten miles to take 
charge of the Sunday-school. Soon it booms with one 
hundred scholars. About that time I slip in to hold a 
protracted meeting. 

As the people had always had to go several miles to 
attend protracted meetings, they were delighted with 
the idea of having one in their new church. I took 
Mount Sinai for my pulpit, and asked God to supply me 
with lightning, thunder, and earthquakes. On the third 
day I missed the leading citizen out of my congregation. 
The news came " J. C. is awfully sick and at the point of 
death." The Spirit revealed to me that it was heart-sick- 
ness I went from the morning meeting to his house. 
The salutation met me at the door: ''Preacher, I am in 
an awful fix. I will be dead and in hell before sun- 
down." I spend the afternoon with him reading and ex- 
pounding the Word, praying, singing, and exhorting. 
About one hour by sun he passes triumphantly from 
death to life; leaps, shouts aloud, and runs before me to 
the meeting-house, shouts uproariously, takes possession 
of the congregation telling the mighty works of God in 
his soul, and exhorting his good neighbors to flee the 
wrath to come and prepare for death and judgment. 
The congregation is shaken by a spiritual earthquake 
from pulpit to vestibule. The people crowd the altar in 
platoons, and throughout the house fall on the floor cry- 
ing aloud for mercy. A landslide from the heavenly 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 15 

country comes down on the community and sweeps over 
everything. We organized them into a church. If I 
had told them that I wanted them to build a church that 
they might all get converted they never would have built 
it. God gave me wisdom. I set His trap and caught 
them with " guile." 

On another occasion when I was traveling a circuit a 
preacher belonging to another church migrated and set- 
tled in my territory. He conceived the plan of erecting 
a church edifice in view of organizing a congregation. 
I immediately visited him, encouraged his noble work, 
and prevailed on my members to assist in building the 
church, as we had no organization in that immediate vi- 
cinity. The preacher and myself became very intimate. 
We w y orked together like David and Jonathan. Before 
the house was completed he insisted that I should preach 
in it at will. I was the first man to occupy the pulpit, 
and pushed right on with a five week's meeting. The 
Lord sent us a glorious Pentecostal revival. One hun- 
dred souls were powerfully converted; meanwhile the 
preacher with a number of others swept into Beulab 
Land. I said nothing about joiners till the close of the 
meeting, when I had the preacher and proprietor of the 
house stand up and receive the hand of all the candi- 
dates, assuring them that they should take membership, 
at their option, among the churches. Behold! when they 
gave their verdict the round hundred decided to take 
membership in my pastorate. Then the preacher with 
the new church edifice and the hundred new members 
came w r ith a shout into the Southern Methodist Church. 
That church is this day prominent in one of the charges 
of the Kentucky Conference. To God be all the glory 
for the gift of wisdom in this enterprise. 



16 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

My maternal ancestry were O'Kelleys in Ireland (and 
Kellys in this country.) They migrated to America and 
settled in Pulaski County, Ky., contemporary with the 
exploration of Daniel Boone. Eventually their baby 
died. These superstitious Roman Catholics thought they 
needed a priest to get its soul out of purgatory. They 
made all possible inquiry, but could hear of a priest no- 
where. Their distress was unbearable. In their per- 
sistent inquiry after Catholic priests they fell in with a 
woodsman who told them there was a man going through 
that country called a circuit rider, who, he thought prob- 
ably, was either a priest or at least a man somewhat like 
a priest. They told him by all means to send him to 
their house without delay. The man was one of Bishop 
Asbury's blood-washed and fire-baptized circuit riders, 
and fortunately at that time happened to be in that part 
of his monthly round. 

Soon he called at the log cabin which had recently 
been filled with weeping and wailing because of the 
death of a baby, and the deepest sorrow still lingered be- 
cause there was no priest to get its soul out of purga- 
tory. On arrival he introduced himself as the circuit- 
rider whom they had sent for. But " oh," they said : " We 
want a priest to get the baby out of purgatory." "Are 
you a priest?" "Oh yes," said the man of God, "lam 
a priest and I can do everything that a Roman Catholic 
priest can do." " Well, we w T ant } r ou to get the baby out 
of purgatory." The preacher replied: "Your baby is 
not in purgatory but it is in heaven, the most beautiful 
thing you ever saw, perfectly happy, and the angels are 
delighted with it. It will never suffer and never cry 
again." The family were comforted and delighted with 
the testimony of the preacher in reference to their baby. 






THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 17 

He then proceeded to interview them in reference to 
their own souls, and read to them the Word of God, 
showing them that while their baby was in heaven that 
they were all on their way to hell. Conviction fastened 
on them. They sought the preacher to come and see 
them whenever he could. He at once made their house 
a regular preaching place in his monthly rounds. All 
the family were powerfully converted, and almost unan- 
imously turned preachers. 

Clinton, Albert; Gilly, and Samuel Kelley were all in 
their day members of the Kentucky Conference. Dr. G. 
C. Kelley, now of the Louisville Conference, is another 
member of that family. My father, Rev. John Godbey, 
and his brother, Rev. Josiah Godbey, both married into 
that Kelley family. Out of these two last mentioned 
families nine preachers have gone forth. Among them 
is Dr. J. E. Godbey, now editor of the Arkansas Meth- 
odist. All this originated under God through the gift of 
wisdom on the part of Bishop Asbury's circuit rider. 

This gift makes us like Paul, all things to all men, 
that we may save souls, and thus adapts us to all sorts 
of circumstances, environments, socialities, and nation- 
alities. Reader, you must have it in order to be a soul- 
winner. 

2. KNOWLEDGE. 

The gift of knowledge is number two in the Pauline 
Catalogue. This gift, with the other eight, was so prom- 
inent in the apostolic age as to become the cognomen of 
one of the earliest religious sects called ''Gnostics," from 
the Greek word "gnosis" which means knowledge. 

Now what is this spiritual gift of knowledge ? It is in- 
sight into divine truth. As the Holy Spirit is the author 
of the Bible, He alone understands its meaning. Man 



18 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

teaches the intellect, but the Holy Ghost teaches the 
heart. Many people think the mind is greater than the 
heart, but they are egregiously mistaken. The intellect 
is confined to the brain located in the skull. The heart 
fills the whole body, brain, and all. The heart is the 
man himself, the mind being his servitor. The gift of 
knowledge reveals to you the deep, hidden meaning of 
God's word. 

Many years ago an old Methodist bishop said to us 
young preachers : "Young men, God can teach you more 
in a minute than men can teach you in a year." That 
strange, and to me paradoxical statement, lingered in my 
memory, and made an indelible impression on my mind. 
Years subsequently, when the Lord led me into Beulah 
Land and imparted to me the gift of knowledge, I for 
the first time understood the old bishop. I graduated at 
college, and ransacked all the world for books, and gath- 
ered me up a library at the cost of one thousand dollars, 
thinking I would have to study those books in order to 
be an efficient preacher. About that time the Lord gave 
me sanctification, flooding my soul with celestial fire, and 
transforming the scientific metaphysical preacher into a 
flaming revivalist. The fire swept through me night and 
day, from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. 
I preached four to six times a day, moving in a revival 
cyclone the encircling year. I was compelled to bid 
farewell to my library, give up sermon making, and de- 
vote all my time to saving souls. Consequently, I con- 
secrated to God all my fond aspirations to understand 
the Bible, and went forth content to cry, "Behold the 
Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world!" 
having forever abandoned all my cherished aspirations 
to understand the Bible. Anon to my unutterable sur- 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 19 

prise I find myself surrounded by preachers and people, 
with open Bibles listening to my expositions of the in- 
spired Word. That God would use me as a teacher of 
the Bible seemed to me a paradoxical dream. But what 
is the solution of the mysterious problem? The Holy 
Ghost has revealed to me His Word. The spiritual gift 
of knowledge is the golden key which unlocks the Bi- 
ble. This explains how Bob Burks, when converted 
and sanctified, could lucidly and forcibly explain the 
Scriptures, though he could not read a word. This is 
the reason why the illiterate women of the Salvation 
Army are better preachers than many collegiate gradu- 
ates who fill our city pulpits. 

God is raising up a kingdom out of the slums and 
jungles to preach His gospel and save the world. It is a 
significant fact the poor back-woods circuits enjoy a 
purer gospel and a more vital Christianity than the 
wealthy stations, because the poor, illiterate circuit rid- 
ers are taught by the Holy Ghost and the learned pastors 
are taught by men. Human learning is all right in its 
place, but is a blighting curse when made a substitute for 
the knowledge which none but the Holy Ghost can impart. 

Reader, if you would understand the wonderful revela- 
tion of God's word, give up all of your own wisdom and 
sit down meekly and lowly at the feet of Jesus, and aban- 
don yourself to the Holy Ghost that He may teach you 
the deep things of God. We learn in 1 Cor. 3, that the 
first lesson in the school of Christ is to find out that w r e 
are fools. 1 Cor. 2, teaches us that the word of God 
can not be discerned by the human intellect. The Holy 
Spirit must teach your spirit His revealed word and will, 
or you will remain a spiritual ignoramus. God's Word is 
the sword with which we are to conquer the world, flesh, 



20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACKS. 

and Satan. You do not need colleges and theologians to 
reveal to you God's word, but you need the Holy Ghost 
to illuminate it. 

D. L. Moody, the world's evangelist, is an unlearned 
layman. Yet he is a master in Israel, at whose feet the- 
ologians of all nations would do well to sit and learn the 
word of God. He is a wonderful example of this spirit- 
ual gift of knowledge. Amanda Smith is an illiterate 
colored woman, born and reared in Southern slavery; 
yet she has preached to myriads in America, Europe, 
Asia, and Africa, and is wonderfully luminous in the 
word of God. She is one of the most efficient preachers 
in the world; the secret of the matter is she is taught by 
the Holy Ghost the deep things of God. You can not 
afford to be without this gift. 

3. FAITH. 

The gift of faith stands third in the illustrious cata- 
logue of nine. The Greek poets tell us about the nine 
muses who inspired their songs with celestial fire. The 
Greeks were the leading spirits in the Paganistic relig- 
ions of their day. These churches were the apostasy of 
the Noachian dispensation, and doubtless carried with 
them from the house of Noah many brilliant scintilla- 
tions of primary truth. Hence the mythological dogma 
of the nine muses was doubtless a lingering reminis- 
cence of the original revelation of the nine spiritual 
gifts. Remember faith here is not a grace but a gift. 
Hence it is not the faith by which we are justified, nor 
the faith by which we are sanctified, nor the faith by 
which we are kept saved and sanctified; but it is the 
faith by which we are instrumental in the conviction, 
conversion, and sanctification of others. "As 3^our faith 



THK GIFT AND THK GIFTS. 21 

is, so be it unto you," is as true of the gifts as of the 
graces. "All things are possible to him that believeth," 
measures the illimitable potentiality of this wonderful 
gift of the Holy Ghost. With this gift "one shall chase 
a thousand, and two shall put ten thousand to flight. ,, 
As the church moves out in the clear light of the true 
biblical exegesis and regains the apostolic faith, the age 
of miracles will come back. 

On one occasion, Dr. Finney having labored hard in a 
revival effort with no visible success, giving up in de- 
spair, bade his kind hostess adieu. The saintly woman 
having persistently expostulated with him -to remain, 
turning into her room soliloquized: "You are gone but 
we will have the revival anyhow." The man of God 
overheard her, and feeling assured that she had the gift 
of faith for a revival at that time and place, turned back, 
saying: "I will not go, for I know now we are going to 
have a revival, because you have faith for it," and Jesus 
says: "It shall be according to your faith." The same 
man tells us about a venerable saint who died of con- 
sumption, after an illness of many years. While con- 
fined in his room he spent his time praying for the 
churches. He would frequently send for the preachers 
and say to them: "I have been enabled to pray the 

prayer of faith for -church. Now go to that church 

and you will have a revival." The writer says that the 
revival came promptly in every case. After the old man 
was dead, upon examination of his diary they found a 
goodly number of instances in which he had made the 

record "on date I was enabled to pray the prayer 

of faith for a revival in church." The preachers 

went to those churches, and unexceptionally had glori- 
ous revivals. 



22 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

Mr. Finney gives an account of an old blacksmith 
whose stammering speech could scarcely be understood. 
He became so burdened with the souls of the despe- 
rately wicked town in which he lived that he shut him- 
self up in bis shop, fasted and prayed several days. He 
then called on his pastor and urged him to appoint a 
seekers' meeting. The faithless man responded with as- 
tonishment, "A seekers' meeting?" "Why there are no 
seekers of religion about here." After much importun- 
ity, the pastor having refused to appoint the seekers' 
meeting in his church, yields to the irresistible enthusi- 
asm of the old stammerer, and announces a seekers' meet- 
ing at his house, at the same time predicting that nobody 
will come. An hour before the appointed time the house 
ran over and a crowd filled the yard. Before the service 
began some of the hardest sinners in the neighborhood 
broke down, weeping and calling on the people to pray 
for them. A wonderful sweeping revival thus broke 
out. All this originated from the wonderful potency of 
the Gift of Faith in* the heart of the stammering old 
blacksmith. 

At midnight, in Indiana, a sanctified wife received the 
Gift of Faith for the conversion of her husband, who was 
a steamboat captain running on the Mississippi River 
from Cairo to New Orleans, and a notoriously hard sin- 
ner. At day-dawn, the next morning, a telegraph boy 
brought a telegram to her stating that her husband's 
boat was burned and that he was lost. Having received 
and read the telegram she rolled it up, handed it back to 
the boy and said: " It is a mistake. The L,ord revealed 
to me last night that my husband will be converted and 
go with me to heaven." Two days afterward her hus- 
band came home. She met him and told him about the 



The gift and the gifts. 28 

telegram and her answer to it, and God's revelation that 
he would be converted and go with her to heaven. Im- 
mediately conviction seized him. He cried aloud for 
mercy, and was soon shouting in the kingdom of God. 
Anon, he was gloriously sanctified, and became a hero 
with his good wife in the Lord's war. 

I am an old revivalist. I never saw a place where I 
could not have a revival. I always made it a rule to 
pray till I received the Gift of Faith for a revival at tha* 
time and place. I then went into the conflict with vic- 
tory in sight. Twenty years ago, when presiding elder, 

I laid siege to the town of C . A noted man lived 

there, distinguished for his intelligence, popularity, so- 
ciability, and for his musical talents; he was exceed- 
ingly influential, especially with the young people, and 
a ringleader of the fandangoes. Notwithstanding his 
rowdy predilections, such were his musical gifts that the 
people thought they could not sing without his leader- 
ship. He seemed to stand in the way of all the sinners 
in the community. On arrival I went off into the woods 
and prayed for him in person till I received the Gift of 
Faith for him and a revival. He came to the first meet- 
ing so convicted that he could not sing. He responded 
with enthusiasm to the first invitation; wrestled Jacob- 
like till he came through bright as a sunburst. The 
sinners followed him like sheep, and glorious was the 
victory. 

When you receive the Gift of Faith for a revival the 
revival is sure to come. The difficulties which beggar all 
human solution are not in God's way at all. When the 
difficulties are greatest the revival is most needed. Re- 
member, the days of miracles are not passed; but the 
trouble is, the days of faith with ninety-and-nine out of 



24 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

every hundred are passed. When faith comes back 
miracles come back. Wake up, O Zion, from the sleep 
of ages, and hail the infinite possibilities of recovering 
all the lost Gifts and Graces of the glorious gospel. Rise, 
O holiness people, recognize your heavenly calling. God 
wants to confer on you the imperishable honor of re- 
storing to the church every item of the long lost gos- 
pel. Popes, prelates, and priests in vain have sought 
this honor. God has it for His little ones. "He hath 
revealed it unto babes." This day there is a prevailing 
deficiency, even among sanctified people, in their ap- 
preciation, appropriation, elucidation, and utilization of 
these gifts. Bear in mind they constitute the Christian 
warrior's invincible panoply with which he is to conquer 
the world. Reader, faith is the palladium of your vic- 
tory on every embattled line. The grace of faith is the 
measuring line of your personal salvation. The Gift of 
Faith is the measure of your efficiency in the salvation of 
others. 

4. THE GIFTS OF HEADINGS. 

During probation we are all identified with these ma- 
terial bodies, which surviving the fall (which was death 
to the spirit) became mortal and subjected to innumer- 
able ailments. Air, water, and earth all abound in ele- 
ments pestiferous to health and life. Our Lord has 
given us work to do in this world, and is willing to give 
us the health and strength we need to finish our work. 
Both "gifts" and "healings" are in the plural number, 
setting forth the fact that our ailments are many, and of 
course the healings must be equally diversified. Some 
are gifted with healing certain diseases and some are 
others. "As your faith is so be it unto you," is just as 
true of the body as of the soul. When you are sick, if 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. -> 

you have faith in Jesus to heal you He will heal you. 
His promise is infallible, as solid as His throne. If one 
promise should fail the divine government would fail, 
and the throne of God totter and fall. The word of God 
partakes of His infallibility. 

Since the rise of the holiness movement divine heal- 
ing has become so common as to be no longer a matter 
of controversy. With candid Bible readers I have wit- 
nessed it ever and anon the last twenty-five years. It is 
rapidly coming to the recognition and appreciation of 

the church. 

While I was in Indiana, during the Confederate War, 
the people of God were much exercised over the severe 
illness of Bishop Simpson, the great orator of the North. 
Bishop Janes was presiding over one of the Indiana Con- 
ferences when he received a telegram, "Bishop Simpson 
is dying." He read the telegram to the Conference and 
said: "We are not prepared to give up Bishop Simpson. 
God will hear prayer, Jesus can heal the body as well as 
the soul." In the providence of God, William Taylor, 
now bishop of Africa, the cosmopolitan missionary had 
stopped in the Conference on his tour. Bishop Janes 
called the Conference to their knees to pray for the heal- 
ing of Bishop Simpson, and doubtless by divine intu- 
ition called on Bro. Taylor to lead the prayer. The 
Holy Ghost inspired Bishop Taylor's prayer. The final 
amen was hardly enunciated till the whole Conference 
leaped to their feet with shouts and hand-shaking, testi- 
fying that Bishop Simpson was healed. Precisely con- 
temporaneously a paradoxical scene transpired in Bishop 
Simpson's sick chamber, a thousand miles toward sun- 
rise. The physicians have all pronounced him hopeless 
and retreated from the room. The watchers are every 



26 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

moment expecting his release. To the unutterable sur- 
prise of the watchers he revives. His physicians were 
called in. Upon diagnosis they simply state, "The cri- 
sis of the disease is passed and he is a well man, but to 
us the paradox is inexplicable." 

In 1893, Rev. F. J. Browning, presiding elder of Beau- 
mont District, East Texas Conference, called me to 
Woodville, Tex., to preach during the session of his Dis- 
trict Conference. On arrival at my boarding-house I 
saw in the veranda a little girl lying on a cot, scorched 
with fever, which for twenty-one days had defied all med- 
ical skill. Feeling moved by the Spirit I called the fam- 
ily, with Bro. and Sister Browning, to unite in prayer for 
her healing, all kneeling around the cot. The fever left 
her that very hour and returned no more. 

One month later, at Waco Camp-meeting, Texas, an 
old friend invited me to his tent to dine. On arrival my 
attention was arrested by an emaciated damsel lying on a 
bed. They told me the fever had burnt her as in a fur- 
nace sixty-one days, defiant of all remedies. Hesitating 
about coming to the camp-meeting on her account, a 
voice seemed to say: "Go, take her with you, and per- 
haps she will be healed." On sight, feeling, and inspi- 
ration of faith for her healing, I called all to their knees 
around her bed, Next time I saw her in the meetings 
testifying that the fever left her when we prayed for her. 

Cases are innumerable in my observation. I have 
most wonderfully and repeatedly been healed myself. 
Twenty-two years ago, with a vile attack of pulmonary 
congestion, physicians having exhausted all their re- 
sources, pronounced me hopeless, liable to expire at any 
moment, and could not possibly survive two hours. The 
Lord inspired my Christian wife and others with faith in 



THE GlET AND THE GIFTS. 27 

the great Physician to heal me. While on their knees 
around my bed praying for me the healing came sud- 
denly. I arose and testified, and in three days went off 
preaching. The physicians all tell me congestion of the 
lungs is often fatal, and when apparently removed it 
is almost certain to return. Let me say for the glory of 
the Omnipotent Healer, since my instantaneous healing 
twenty-two years ago, I have never had a symptom of 
the disease. 

As the church becomes enlightened and moves up on 
to the highlands of entire sanctification, the recognition 
of the Omnipotent Healer will become common as in 
New Testament times. 

John Wesley was orthodox on divine healing. One 
day as he rode horseback to his appointment his horse 
w r as lame and limping so he could hardly get along, 
meanwhile his head was aching as if it would burst. He 
lifted his heart and voice to the great Physician: "O 
God, Thou art master of diseases in man and beast. I 
implead Thee, in the name of Jesus, to heal me and my 
horse, that I may go on and preach the gospel." Im- 
mediately his aching head was calm and painless, mean- 
while his horse ceased to limp and paced off with life and 
energy. When this father of Methodism visited John 
Fletcher, and found him lying on a bed hopeless in the 
last stage of consumption ; he dropped on his knees by 
the bed and prayed, "O Lord, for Jesus' sake, spare me 
this man, for I can not do without him." At that mo- 
ment the inspiration of faith for his healing came on 
him. Leaping to his feet he exclaimed: "He shall not 
die, but live to declare the mighty works of God." Sure 
enough, Fletcher was healed, and afterward wrote his 
wonderful books on "Christian Perfection," which for 



28 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

one hundred and fifty years have shaken the world with 
the momentum of an earthquake. 

Glory to God for a Savior who is more than a match 
for all diseases, both hereditary and sporadic. Shall I 
ever call a physician? That is a matter of your own op- 
tion. I would not permit a wicked physician to medi- 
cate my body, which is the temple of the Holy Ghost. 
The Christian physician is quite homogeneous to the 
minister of the gospel. The one ministers to the body 
and the other to the soul. But the pills of the one and 
the prayers of the other are equally ineffectual unless 
the great Physician impart the healing efficiency. 

While certainly no Christian believes that the Omnip- 
otent Savior is dependant on a human subordinate in 
either case, He can certainly heal the body without a 
physician and save the soul without a preacher. 

"Bro. Godbey please explain Mark 16: 18, 'They shall 
lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.'" 

"Does not this Scripture show that divine healing is a 
universal concomitant of our Lord's commission?" If 
you will examine the revised version you will find the 
last twelve verses of Mark's gospel designated as an in- 
terpolation. 

For the last twenty years I have constantly used the 
Critical Greek Testament which Dr. Tischendorf found 
in the convent of St. Catharine on Mt. Sinai, A. D. 1859. 
It antedates the dark ages and belongs to the apostolic 
age, and is the purest Scripture on the globe. It is the 
ultimatum of all appeal and the highest New Testament 
authority in the world. It closes with the eighth verse 
of Mark 16, thus showing conclusively that Mark never 
wrote the last twelve verses of the gospel which bears 
his name. 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 29 

These twelve verses were added by some other person 
after Sinaitic manuscript was written, and of course after 
Mark was dead. Divine healing is not homogeneous 
with the commission. It belongs to the Gifts of the 
Spirit. While the soul is saved by the Graces, the Graces 
of salvation and sanctification are freely and indiscrimi- 
nately bestowed upon all who seek them in God's way. 
The Bible certainly reveals that God wants to save and 
sanctify all and take them to heaven. Bodily healing 
belongs to the department of Spiritual Gifts which are 
not bestowed indiscriminately like the Graces of convic- 
tion, conversion, and sanctification; but these gifts are 
bestowed by the sovereign discriminating providence of 
God. I have repeatedly been sick, and had faith in 
Jesus to heal me, and according to my faith and the faith 
of others He did heal me. 

But the time is speedily coming when I will have no 
faith to be healed ; then I hope to have plenty of faith 
for my soul to sweep right into glory. You must not 
expect every one to be healed in answer to your prayer, 
for in that case none would be left to go to heaven. 

A. D. 1893, on arrival at Scottsville Camp, Texas, I 
found pastor Lively very sick with a malignant malarial 
fever. I knelt with his family around his bed and we 
prayed for his healing. Sister Lively and myself both 
received the Gift for him. He arose a well man and 
went to the camp-ground. I went immediately and 
prayed for dear old Bro. Scott as he lay on his bed of 
languishing. In my pleading for his soul the Lord gave 
me great liberty, but I received no faith for the healing 
of his body. As I bade him adieu he said: "Bro. God- 
bey, tell the good people at the camp-meeting to pray 
for my soul, that God may give me dying grace and take 



30 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

me to heaven; but not to pray for my healing, for my 
good wife died this year and I want to go and join her 
among the angels." 

Never pray for the unconditional healing of a wicked 
person, but pray for his conviction and salvation. A 
Methodist preacher prayed earnestly and indefatigably 
for the healing of his wicked son. He saw him recover 
from his sickness, but afterward saw him hung for mur- 
der. God wants to make all of our sickness a blessing 
to us, in the sanctification of His children and the awak- 
ening and salvation of the wicked. When you pra} r for 
bodily healing always climax your petition, "Thy will 
be done." When you pray for the soul you should pray 
importunately and unconditionally for the Bible abnud- 
antly reveals that it is God's will to pardon all sinners 
and sanctify all believers who meet the conditions pro- 
pounded in His word. Shall we anoint the sick with 
oil w T hen we pray for their healing? (Jas. 5: 14.) This 
anointing with oil symbolizes our consecration to God. 
Hence we should never anoint a wicked person, but pray 
and exhort him until he repents and gives his heart to 
God ; then we can anoint him. 

This same Scripture says: "The prayer of faith shall 
save the sick." From this we see that the anointing is 
not medicinal but consecratoty, and especially beneficial 
as an inspiration to the faith which brings the healing. 
This anointing signifies that you are perfectly resigned 
and committed to God's will, so that if He should send 
Gabriel to propound to you the question, "Will you live 
or w T ill you die?" you would say, "Gabriel, go back and 
tell my heavenly Father please decide that matter for 
me, since my will is lost in thine." 

When you make this perfect consecration, symbolized 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 31 

by the anointing with oil, it is highly probable that God 
will see that He can use you for His glory in this world, 
and consequently prolong your life. 

5. THE WORKING OF MIRACLES. 

This is the central and culminating Gift of the paradox, 
ical nine. The popular mind, staggered at the word 
li miracles," has long ago laid this inestimable Gift in the 
shade and relegated it to the " age of miracles." Reader, 
go with me now into the simple matter of fact as re- 
vealed in God's word, and ask God to give you light and 
perseverance, and enable you to haul up from the debris 
of the dark ages the brighest gem that ever shone in the 
diadem of the conquering saint. This Gift called mir- 
acles is as real and available to-day as when Paul stood 
on the Areopagus and preached Jesus to the learned vo- 
taries of thirty thousand Athenian gods. 

The Greek is "energemata dunameon" whose literal 
meaning is workings of dynamites. This word dyna- 
mite is generally translated " power." (Rom. 1: 16.) 
Paul says: "The gospel is the power of God unto sal- 
vation to every one that belie veth." This is a very sig- 
nificant passage, as it is the only inspired definition 
of "gospel." But remember the word here translated 
"power" is dynamite, and the same word is translated 
" miracles" in the English version of this fifth spiritual 
Gift. Acts 1: 8, "You shall receive the power of the 
Hoty Ghost having come on you." (Not as the English 
version, "You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is 
come on you.") In this Scripture the word for " power" 
is dynamite, translated miracles in 1 Cor. 12 : 10. From 
these and innumerable quotations which we could give, 
you see the word "miracles" in the text means gospel; 



32 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

/. e., spiritual miracles and not physical. The popular 
idea that the Word is the gospel is anti-Pauline and un- 
scriptural. The Holy Ghost says positively that this 
dynamite is the gospel. 

Now it is the province of dynamite when touched with 
fire to explode and blow everything out of its way. All 
sin is Satan's rock. It is so hard that nothing but God's 
dynamite can blow it out of the human heart. It takes 
the dynamite of conviction to burst up the strong heart 
of the sinner. It takes the dynamite of regeneration 
to blow all actual sin out of the heart. And nothing but 
the dynamite of entire sanctification can blow original 
sin out of the heart. Hence we see a more literal trans- 
lation of this wonderful gift would be manipulations 
of dynamites. Momentus conception! Holy Spirit, 
give us light and guidance in the elucidation of this 
wonderful gift. Reader, it is not only your glorious 
privilege to utilize it, but it is your imperative duty. 
Tread lightly, for you walk on holy ground. When Dr. 
Franklin walked amid the thunder-storms, manipulated 
the lightning, brought him down and sent him a courier 
around the world with a velocity of twenty thousand 
miles per second, philosophers doffed their hats and the 
nations stood spell-bound. 

" The hero chieftain laying down his pen, 
Closes his eyes in Washington at ten; 
The lightning courier leaps along the line, 
And tells the St. Louis tale at nine; 
Halting a thousand miles whence it departed, 
And getting there an hour before it started." 

Heathen poets represent Jupiter standing on the sum- 
mit of Olympus and hurling thunder-bolts around the 
world. The peculiarity of this gift is to make you the 



THE GIF? AND THE GIFTS. 33 

potent medium of the Holy Ghost in conviction, con- 
version, and sanctification. It imparts to you the super- 
natural magnetism of the Holy Ghost in the Lord's 
work. It makes you a manipulator of the heavenly dy- 
namite. This Gift was the marvel of the apostolic age, 
and is again waking up the world in the extraordinary 
achievements of the holiness movement. As the dark- 
ness of superstition, ignorance, and heresy recede hefore 
the increasing splendor of the millennial dawn, these 
gifts of the Holy Ghost will become the crowning glory 
of the church. 

In all ages, God has had His witnesses to these Spirit- 
ual Gifts. Dr. Finney was wonderfully endowed with 
this Gift of spiritual dynamite. Charged with this heav- 
enly dynamite he walks into a cotton-mill and stands 
amid the roar of three hundred steam looms, his counte- 
nance radiant with celestial fire. The operators are so 
arrested and spell-bound by the speechless look of the 
man as to become confused, then embarrassed, then ap- 
palled, and finally a solemn awe settles down on them as 
if the very angel of doom had come down to judge the 
world, and they were looking him in the face. Convic- 
tion, with an incorrigible paralysis, settles down on the 
employees so fast as they look upon this man of God. 
The ungodly proprietor escapes not the lasso of the 
Holy Ghost, but orders the engines to be stopped and 
the work suspended, saying to all the laborers: "It is no 
time to run a cotton-mill, but it is time for salvation. I 
myself am an awful sinner and need salvation; so we 
turn over the mill to this man of God." 

All this occurred before Mr. Finney spoke a word. 
Strong men and proud women fell on the floor all around 
him crying for mercy before he had spoken a word. 



34 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

Benjamin Abbott, one of Bishop Asbury's circuit rid- 
ers during the Revolutionary War, was a remarkable 
example of this Gift. Send to a Methodist publishing 
house and get his life. As you read it you will find 
that the people fell under the power of God during al- 
most every sermon he preached. As he passed on his 
rounds preaching every day, it was a common thing for 
a large portion of his congregation to fall while he was 
preaching, and lose the power of locomotion till God 
converted or sanctified them. It was this Spiritual Gift 
which knocked down hundreds and thousands, and pre- 
cipitated them into jerks and other physical contortions 
during the paradoxical revivals which characterized the 
camp-meetings at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Ky., 
A.D. 1800,1801. 

The power which prevailed in these camp-meetings 
was so astounding that thousands of people traveled hun- 
dreds of miles to witness these mighty works. James 
B. Finley says he traveled from Ohio on horseback to 
satisfy his curiosity. An obdurate sinner having boasted 
and defied this knock-down jerking power, with Satan 
to help him, he had made up his mind to resist it all 
and prove to the world that one sinner was more than a 
master for this strange and unaccountable power. But 
he fell a victim to the power he came to defy; was won- 
derfully converted and became a champion Methodist 
preacher. 

Among the wonderful scenes he describes, amid a 
multitude of twenty-five thousand, about twenty preach- 
ers dispersed here and there, standing on logs, stumps, 
rocks, w r agons, were preaching with the Holy Ghost 
sent down from heaven, and the people falling, crying, 
jerking. On one occasion at one moment he saw five 



TlIK GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 35 

hundred people fall on the ground as suddenly as if a 
battery of a thousand guns had swept down on them 
simultaneously. After fifteen minutes of wailings, plead- 
ings, jerkings, and agonizing, they rise like a mighty 
swell of the sea and make the air resound and reverber- 
ate with deafening shouts of triumph. I have often wit- 
nessed this wonderful, supernatural, inexplicable power 
in my own meetings. 

In a meeting at Soule Chapel, Pulaski County, Ky., 
eleven years ago, this power; i. <?., dynamite; i 9 e. y mi- 
raculous work was wonderful^ manifest. The people 
fell and lost the power to stand or walk, not only at the 
altar in almost every service, but throughout the house; 
even the aisles were blockaded by the slain of the Iyord 
who had lost the physical power to stand on their feet. 

At CofFeeville, Texas camp-meeting last July, the 
power came the fourth night, and increased in every serv- 
ice till it swept like a cyclone. All routine was super- 
seded, and the management of the meetings completely 
given over to the Holy Ghost'. We could only adjourn 
the meetings by having all the lights extinguished; oth- 
erwise they evidently would have swept on their Pente- 
costal tide all night. 

At Waco camp-meeting, Texas, 1893, many people fell 
and lost the power to stand or walk till the Omnipotent 
Hand raised them up to shout His praises. A promi- 
nent anti-holiness city pastor fell and lay four hours un- 
able to stand till the Omnipotent Sanctifier slew Adam 
the First, and flooded his soul with sanctifying power. 

This Gift is much more prominent in the West than 
in the East. O the eminent usefulness of a Christian, 
and especially a preacher endued with this Gift. Dur- 
ing a testimony meeting in Walker street Church, At- 



36 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

lanta, Ga., in 1892, a large congregation with perhaps 
one hundred and fifty sanctified and fifty preachers, an 
illiterate farmer boy arose and testified to conversion and 
sanctification. This indescribable heavenly dynamite 
came on him. His face lighted up; his eyes sparkled 
with preternatural brilliancy ; his whole visage became 
radiant with unearthly splendor. Then the power struck 
the audience like a cyclone. Simultaneously the people 
began to shout in all parts of the house; all order w r as 
broken up amid the demonstrations of a general rhap- 
sody. 

John Wesley says the experience of entire sanctifica- 
tion may consist with very little spiritual power. Hence 
you need not be discouraged as to your sanctification 
because of this deficiency, but seek it from the Lord as 
a subsequent Gift. 

We must have this along with the other Gifts to equip 
us for the Lord's war and for the salvation of the world. 
Remember "they are Gifts." Hence they are free, and 
you have nothing to do but receive them as a gratuity 
from our great Captain, who wants to supply all of His 
soldiers with full panoply. 

6. prophecy. 

Is number six in the Pauline catalogue of Spiritual 
Gifts. The original meaning of the word is to bubble 
up like a boiling spring or an artesian well. I saw a 
spring in Alabama whose waters shot up about fifteen 
feet into the air. A bystander challenged me to cast a 
stone into it, which I did, and the impetuosity of the 
water threw it out. 

In Colorado I saw a beautiful limpid lake in the midst 
of an arid plain. The problem was solved when I rec_ 



THE GIFT AND THK GIFTS. 37 

ognized an artesian well in the center shooting its crys- 
tal volume into the air incessantly. 

On the day of Pentecost all the disciples received 
double tongues of fire ; one to preach hell-fire to convict 
the wicked, and the other to preach heavenly fire to 
sanctify the righteous. Hence the gospel preacher has 
but two subjects; i. <?., hell for the wicked and holiness 
for the Christian, and is bound to have a tongue of fire 
to preach either of these gospels. 

The baptism of the Holy Ghost splits the tongue and 
sets both prongs of it on fire. Therefore, our Savior 
made sanctification the basis of the gospel ministry, and 
interdicted His apostles the privilege of going forth un- 
der the commisison until they had received a fiery bap- 
tism. He knew they never could preach this wonder- 
ful double salvation till they received double tongues of 
fire. 

If the church had never departed from this great car- 
dinal pillar laid by Christ Himself, she would have con- 
quered the world and ushered in the millennium long 
ago. The violation of this fundamental decree of our 
Savior opened the door and Satan and the world came in. 

The Lord wants all of His saints to have the Spirit of 
Prophecy (Rev. 19: 10). The "testimony of Jesus" is 
the Spirit of Prophecy. 

This Spiritual Gift imparts to you a double tongue of 
fire, and makes you an indefatigable witness for Jesus, 
always ready to tell your experience of conversion and 
sanctification, and w 7 arn the wicked of hell-fire, and tell 
the righteous of the refining fire ready to fall on them 
from heaven's altars and sanctify them. 

1 Cor. 14: 3, "He that prophesieth speaketh to the 
people edification, exhortation, and comfort." Here you 



38 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND CRACKS. 

have God's infallible definition of Prophecy. You see 
it covers all the ground of practical gospel preaching. 
Modern sermonizing was unknown in the apostolic age. 
Paul condemns it outright (1 Cor. 2: 5). It is Satan's 
invention, and has hung a millstone around the cultured 
preacher's neck for centuries. 

The learned doctor of divinity in the city pulpit preaches 
a gospel so diluted with nearly everything else that spir- 
itual life can not subsist upon it. His people utterly 
backslide during his quadrennium, and sweep into hell 
in platoons, while the poor, illiterate Salvation Army 
woman, preaching in the slums, gives the miserable 
drunkards and harlots the pure gospel, for fortunately 
she has nothing else to give. Hence they get saved and 
sanctified, and sweep into glory with shouts which as- 
tonish the angels. You don't need a college to make 
you a gospel preacher; you just need the Holy Spirit's 
Gift of Prophecy. 

Paul gives the decided preeminence to this Gift, im- 
portunately and repeatedly exhorting us to seek all the 
nine Gifts, but especially this one. 

You see at once the pertinency of this preeminence, 
because the world is to be saved by preaching, and this 
Gift makes everybody a preacher. 

The Holy Ghost wants to confer this Gift on all of 
God's children, and thus make them all preachers. Jas. 
3: 1, "Be not many teachers." While the Spirit wants 
us all to preach, and is ready to impart all the qualifica- 
tions w T e need, He tells us " teachers are few." Collegi- 
ate learning is essential to the teacher but not to the 
preacher. Twelve out of thirteen of the apostles were 
unlearned and ignorant men, yet these "sons of thun- 
der" shook the world by their preaching. Paul with his 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS 39 

variant learning was needed to write and expound. I 
have known little children endowed with this Gift to 
preach powerfully, and save souls which had beggared 
the learned ministry a generation. No pastor should rest 
satisfied till every one of his members receives the Gift 
of Prophecy; i. e., perfect spiritual liberty to talk for 
the Lord at home and abroad, in private and public. 
Then every member of the family will be ready to give 
thanks at the table, lead prayer in the family, pray, tes- 
tify, and work in the public meetings. 

Learning can never solve this problem of full spirit- 
ual freedom and readiness to work for the Lord under 
all circumstances. The Holy Ghost is the infallible 
elixir in every case. Reader, if you have not the Gilt 
of Prophecy don't eat nor sleep till you get it. Without 
it, you are like a soldier without a sword. 

7. DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS. 

When Lucifer the Archangel fell in heaven (Isa. 14: 
12), one-third of the angels followed him in the fatal 
apostasy (Rev. 12). They all became devils, filling hell 
and flooding the atmosphere (Eph. 6.) As these demons 
have all been angels in heaven they know how to play 
the angel. 

In the habitude of an angel of light they reveal them- 
selves to us, and with seductive arguments and strata- 
gems they do their utmost to deceive us, lead us into 
sin, stretch their black wings over us, get us into dark- 
ness and all sorts of bewilderment, and finally drag us 
into hell. We most imperatively need this Spiritual 
Gift; t. e., Discernment, to fortify us, not only against 
these demoniacal spirits, but human spirits (1 Cor. 9.) 
Paul speaks of people who worship devils thinking they 



40 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACKS. 

are worshiping God. Many churches are, doubtless, run 
by Satan, through the medium of demons and human 
spirits, leading the people to hell instead of heaven. 
This whole world is a battle-field begirdled with innu- 
merable armies of saints and angels on the one side and 
wicked men and devils on the other. Doubtless many 
preachers are deceived and preaching their way to hell, 
while many popular churches are but passports to the 
bottomless pit. Amid these momentous environments 
we would be terrifically exposed to the caprices of dev- 
ils and wicked men without the Discernment of Spirits. 
This Gift enables us to diagnose the spiritual atmos- 
phere whithersoever we go, and read men and women 
like we read books. Without this Gift we will waste 
much ammunition, and our labor will be much at ran- 
dom. This Spiritual Gift serves us as a thermometer^ 
revealing to us the spiritual status of communities, 
churches, families, and individuals. Without this Gift 
we will cast the pearls of holiness before the swine of 
carnality. Of course hogs can't eat pearls, but will 
trample them under their feet, and in their eagerness for 
corn, enraged at the disappointment, they will devour you 
if you don't run away. A sanctified preacher goes around 
his circuit preaching every sermon on entire sanctifica- 
tion. His whole circuit gets into a hubbub; there is no- 
body sanctified. He needs the Discernment of Spirits. 
To say nothing of outsiders, one-half of his members have 
never been converted, and the other half have nearly all 
backslidden. Hence only one out of fifty in his pastor- 
ate is in the kingdom of God and ready for sanctification. 
They are delighted with the preacher and off for Beulah 
Land, but the multitude gnash their teeth because he 
preaches sanctification. Instead of taking Mt. Calvary 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 41 

for his pulpit and preaching the wonders of the cleansing 
blood, he should have taken Mt. Sinai for his pulpit and 
thundered the terrors of the violated law till the whole 
mountain trembled with the wrath of a sin-avenging God, 
and the opening chasm of the quaking earth revealed the 
gorgon horrors and lurid flames of hell. 

The people need a knock-down conviction and a sky- 
blue conversion, then they will hail w T ith joyful enthusi- 
asm the glorious doctrine, and run after the sw T eet and 
triumphant experience of entire sanctification. We need 
not expect to escape persecution. If Satan doesn't fight 
you it is simply because you don't fight him. He never 
surrendered a soul without a battle. He only retreats at 
the point of the bayonet. Hence you must not expect to 
" Sail on flowery beds of ease, while others fight to win the 
prize and sail through bloody seas." 

But let your persecution be for righteousness' sake, and 
not for your own indiscretion. Without the Gift of Dis- 
cernment you are unprepared for personal appeal, and very 
liable to defeat the end in view. Holiness people stand 
in great need of this gift to fortify them against fatal 
mistakes and hurtful mal-administration of the Iyord's 
kingdom. 

This Gift is indispensable to put us in harmony with a 
meeting in its different stages, from the inauguration of 
the campaign till the last battle is fought and the victory 
won. We need this Gift to illuminate us and inspire us 
with an intelligent diagnosis of a congregation, so we can 
look on them, take our sermon off their faces and give it 
back to them. 

This Gift is transcendantly essential in altar- work. 
With one penitent you should work for illumination, with 
another for conviction, with another for conversion, and 



42 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

with another for sanctification. Without this Gift you 
will be much like one who beats the air. Reader, it is 
your privilege to enjoy and utilize this Gift. Don't de- 
preciate it, but seek it earnestly; receive it copiously, and 
use it faithfully for the glory of God. 

8. DIVERS KINDS OF TONGUES. 

You see in the English ''Divers" is italicized, showing 
it is not in, Hie original Greek. The same Greek word, 
"glossa" is translated tongue and language. Hence this 
is the Gift of Languge. It is the eighth in the cata- 
logue, and like its compeers it has long ago been relegated 
to the apostolic age by the dead churches. You know 
this is not correct, because God commands in 1 Cor. 12: 
31, to earnestly seek this with the other eight gifts. 
Language is the vehicle of thought, and indispensable in 
the proclamation of God's truth to the world. This 
Gift is quite latitudinous. It means language in the 
broad sense and most illimitable application. Paul said 
that he spoke more languages than any of his contempo- 
raries. 

I have used the New Testament in thirteen different 
languages and dialects. The Lord has especially con- 
ferred on me this gift in the New Testament Greek, 
which I read and translate readily and fluently on sight. 
Oh the infinite value of this Gift of Language ! Will you 
not seek it from the Lord? Did not the disciples on the 
day of Pentecost receive the power to speak languages 
which they did not understand? They certainly did. Is 
that power available now? I know nothing to the con- 
trary. 

Bishop Taylor is perhaps the brightest and most spirit- 
ual Christian in the world. He says this power to speak 



THE GIFT AND THE GIFTS. 43 

unknown languages is enjoyed at the present day by some 
of his missionaries in Africa. He speaks of a young lady 
whom he appointed to preach to a nation of whose lan- 
guage she was utterly ignorant. She began preaching 
through an interpreter, but when the bishop came round 
in two or three months, to his surprise he found her 
preaching fluently and powerfully in the native language 
without an interpreter. None of these Gifts supersede 
our own efforts ; but what little we do in the vay of study 
bears an insignificant proportion to the magnitude of the 
Gift bestowed by the Holy Ghost. This Gift is destined 
to play a conspicuous part in the evangelization of the 
heathen w r orld, amid the glorious prophetical fulfillment 
of the latter days. All missionaries in heathen lands 
should seek and expect this Gift to enable them to preach 
fluently in the vernacular tongue, at the same time not 
depreciating their own efforts. Preaching through an in- 
terpreter conduces to the development of a humdrum 
style, unfavorable to spirituality. Hence the distressing 
inefficiency of many missionaries. 

Persons preparing for the ministry, who have opportu- 
nity, should proceed at once to study and master the 
Greek and Hebrew, so the}^ can read the identical words 
used by the Holy Ghost in the revelation of the glorious 
plan of salvation; meanwhile they should seek earnestly 
these languages bestowed as Gifts of the Holy Ghost. 
The failure to seek these Gifts accounts largely for the 
prevailing deficiency of linguistic knowledge, even on the 
part of those who have enjoyed a classical education. But 
how does this Gift of Language effect people who have 
no opportunity to study Greek and Hebrew, and never go 
as a missionary to heathen nations? Are they interested in 
this Gift? Most assuredly. The Hebrew language con- 



44 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

tains ten thousand words, the Greek forty thousand, the 
Latin sixty thousand, and the English one hundred and 
fifty thousand. The English is the most voluminous lan- 
guage in the world. 

It is the great progressive language of the world, and 
destined to become universal and be spoken in every 
nation under heaven. Doubtless God is preparing this 
language for the millennium to become the vernacular of 
that Kingdom which shall extend from the rising of the 
sun to the going down thereof. 

Hence, you should seek the Gift of the English lan- 
guage, so that, as Paul said of the Corinthians, you shall 
be enriched, not only with all knowledge, but with all 
utterance. 

You cannot be an efficient soul-saver without an ample 
lingual vocabulary and the Gift of ready utterance. You 
must have the Gift of Language, so as to speak readily and 
fluently on all occasions. Many forbear to talk for the 
Lord for the w T ant of language. Such are inexcusable, 
because God is ready to impart this Gift to all who will 
seek it with humility, patience and perseverance. Moses 
had a stammering tongue. He received this w T onderful 
Tongue-Gift and became the w r orld's champion preacher. 
One of the most efficient preachers in the Kentucky 
Conference has the natural deficiency of a cleft palate, yet 
it does not seem to detract one iota from his usefulness. 
Let no one be discouraged. The Holy Spirit is ready to 
bestow on all of God's holy people the Gift of Language, 
which will enable them to speak readily, fluently and ap- 
propriately under all circumstances. This Gift wonder- 
fully supersedes all human learning. The illiterate apos- 
tles had it and threw all the cultured orators of the w r orld 



THE GIF? AND THE GIFTS. 4o 

into eclipse. All the classical lore of the ages can never 
supersede this Gift of the Holy Ghost. 

Reader, it is not only your inestimable privilege, but 
your imperative duty to receive this Gift and use it for the 
glory of God. I hope you will not relegate it to the by- 
gone days, but obey God and seek it earnestly. This 
Gift, with the Pentecostal baptism, makes every man, 
woman and child a preacher. With this Gift and its 
eight concomitants, how quickly would the world be 
conquered for Christ ! 

9. INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES. 

This ninth Gift, and last of the series, is strikingly ho- 
mogeneous to the Gift of Tongues. They naturally go to- 
gether. Consequently Interpretation is essentially about 
as latitudinous and longitudinous as the Gift of Tongues. 
I enjoy both of these Gifts especially in the New Testa- 
ment Greek. 

In my Bible readings I constantly serve as translator 
and interpreter. The great reason why the people know 
so little about a sermon when they hear it is because they 
are deficient in interpretation. The preacher wears him- 
self out, and is astonished to see his congregation inflexi- 
ble as icebergs. But the problem is solved in the fact 
that they do not understand it. The preacher needs this 
Gift to qualify him to interpret for his congregation. The 
people all need this Gift to enable them to understand 
what they read and hear. You would be astonished at 
the gross ignorance, not simply of worldlings, but of 
church members, even in the most simple fundamental 
truths of the Bible. 

We should avail ourselves of the Bible, holiness books 



4G SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

and papers for our spiritual edification and intellectual 
erudition. 

It is all right to study dictionary and grammar, but the 
climax of all is the Gift of Interpretation imparted by the 
Holy Ghost. 

We have thus investigated and elucidated the nine 
Gifts which constitute the Christian warrior's pano- 
ply. 1 Cor. 12: 11: "All these, one and the same 
Spirit, worketh in you, administering to each one in- 
discriminately as he willeth." This verse concludes 
the paragraph containing the nine Spiritual Gifts. Now, 
what do you learn from it ? It is a wonderful description 
of the unity, simplicity and diversity, characteristic of the 
Christian warrior in the utilization of these Gifts. It rep- 
resents the Holy Spirit standing by you on the battle- 
field with an inexhaustible supply of these Gifts, faith- 
fully furnishing you the weapon you need each fleeting 
moment. 

In bringing up the fight you need a cannon to fire on 
the enemy at long range. Afterward you need a shot 
gun, then a bayonet and finally, when you meet him face 
to face, you need a revolver. 

This whole world is a battle-field. We fight under 
three flags, all simultaneously floating in the air — the 
blood-red flag means full redemption, and always under 
the blood ; the snow-white flag proclaims the experience 
of entire sanctification under the blood, while the raven- 
black flag means death on the battle-field and no com- 
promise with sin and Satan. The Holy Spirit dwelling 
in our hearts gives us perfect rest in Jesus, perfect free- 
dom from solicitude, criticism and persecution, and, at 
the same time, puts into our hand the very weapon we 
need each fugitive moment. Do we need Wisdom? He 



THE GIFT AND THK GIFTS. 47 

gives it pursuant to perfect submission and doubtless 
faith. Do we need Knowledge ? He gives it in floods of 
light. Do we need Faith? He gives it, so as to make all 
of Satan's mountain difficulties jump out of the way. Do 
we need Dynamite ? The Holy Ghost unlocks the maga- 
zines of heaven and gives us beyond our asking or think- 
ing, till we are astounded to hear the mighty roar and 
see the Devil's rock all blown out of the most stubborn, 
stony hearts. Do we need Prophecy, i. e. y speaking 
Gifts? He is ready to split our tongues, and set both 
prongs on fire and send us out to preach hell-fire, to 
awaken the wicked and bring them to repentance, and 
heavenly fire to sanctify the righteous and robe them for 
glory. 

Do you need light to enable you to read books and 
diagnose the spiritual asmosphere of religious meetings ? 
He w r ill give you Discernment of Spirits, so you can "Try 
the spirits/' 1 John 4:1, and see whether they be of God, 
and thus you will be fortified against counterfeit religions 
whose name is legion. Do 3^ou need words to proclaim 
the truth as it is in Jesus, warn the impenitent, comfort 
the mourner, convince the Christian of surviving deprav- 
ity and lead the hungry believer into the cleansing fount- 
ain that he may get under the blood, and experience the 
glorious victory of an uttermost salvation ? He will im- 
part to you the Gift of Language, and thus supply all of 
your deficiencies, so you can talk for the Lord from now 
till the judgment and never run out of words. Are you 
incompetent to understand the vocal utterances which 
ring in your ears, whether it be the unknown language 
of some heathen nation, the language of God's unrevealed 
Word or the complicated vocabulary of the great English 
language? He will soothe all your troubles and dissipate 



48 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND CRACKS. 

all your embarrassment by conferring on you the Gift of 
Interpretation. Besides all these wonderful Spiritual Gifts, 
He will confer on you the Gift of Physical Healing, thus 
making you a constant benediction to the bedridden suf- 
ferers for whom you will be enabled to pray the prayer of 
faith, and God will raise them up again. J as. 5 : 15. As 
this world is full of suffering what a sunburst of joy, vic- 
tory and glory in the sickroom is Jesus revealed as the 
Healer. Bestudded with this glorious constellation of 
Spiritual Gifts }^ou become the harbinger of peace, 
light, joy-, health, salvation and victory withersoever 
you go. 

O Christian, you do not know how rich you are ! Well 
did Bishop Taylor say he would rather be an humble 
Christian, preaching to the savages of Africa, than to be 
an angel in heaven. We have all eternity for the angelic 
state in heaven, but so little time here to save souls. 
Good Lord, wake us all up to put on the whole panoply, 
i. e. receive and utilize all these Spiritual Gifts. Let no 
soldier content himself to be a neuter. The bugle call 
ol full salvation is ringing round the world. Twenty -five 
millions sweep into eternity each revolving year. The 
mournful wail comes up from the bottomless pit, " For- 
ever lost ! " Never again say, ''Excuse me." An ice- 
bergy pastor will excuse you, but God will not. As your 
pastor cannot answer for you in judgment, you had better 
obe> God. These Gifts are free for all, and God com- 
mands us all to "seek them earnestly." Hence, we all 
stand on the same level before God. David, the little 
boy, slew the Philistine giant. Jael, a modest young 
Christian woman, slew Sisera, the greatest military chief- 
tain in the world. Your efficiency as a Christian soldier 
does not depend on physical gianthood, intellectual power, 



THE GIFT AND THK GIFTS. 49 

native talent, collegiate education, financial fortune, the 
patronage of friends nor the favoritism of Bishops and 
Presiding Elders, but it depends on your humble, conse- 
crated, trustful appreciation of these Spiritual Gifts. 
Reader, thank God that He ever provided them for you 
and me. Amen. 



SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 

SECTION II. 

The nine Spiritual Gifts; i. <?., Wisdom, Knowledge, 
Faith, Healing, Power, Prophecy, Discernment, Lan- 
guage, and Interpretation, expounded in the preceding 
division of this book, constitute the Holy Spirit's pan- 
oply with which He wants to invest the Christian soldier 
for the defeat of Satan and the salvation of the world. 
The first letter to the Corinthians is the grandest exposi- 
tion of the Holy Ghost in the inspired volume. It cul- 
minates in the 12th, 13th, 14th chapters. The 12th and 
14th chapters are one continuous exposition of the Spir- 
itual Gifts. In the inspired original there is no division 
into chapters and verses. 

The 13th chapter is parenthetical, and constitutes the 
climax of the spiritual culmination, and is purely expos- 
itory of the Spiritual Graces. 

In the 31st verse of the 12th chapter, Paul exhorts us 
to seek earnestly these Spiritual Gifts; i. <?,, Wisdom, 
Knowledge, Faith, Healing, Prophecy, Discernment, Lan- 
guage, and Interpretation; but certifies, "Yet show I 
unto you. a more excellent way." This more excellent 
way is expounded in the 13th chapter. John Wesley 
pronounced this the best chapter in the Bible, and said he 
wanted all the Methodists to live and die in it. 

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SPIRITUAL GRACES. 51 

The word which rings through this chapter from be- 
ginning to end like the bells of heaven is love, unfortu- 
nately translated charity in the English version. For 
this there is no authority whatever, as the Greek word, 
"agape" has but one meaning, and that is love. The 
great difference between true and false religions consists 
in the universally observable fact that the former teach 
salvation by grace and the latter by works; i. <?., true re- 
ligion is the work of God received through faith, while 
false religion is the work of man. 

Romanism and all other fallen churches have always 
taught salvation by works. The Episcopal Church was 
full of the fogs of Romanism in 1611, when they trans- 
lated the Bible. Hence the word charity in this chapter 
and many other passages of the New Testament, is a rem- 
iniscence of Romanism. In the English version this 
chapter preeminently and unmistakable teaches salvation 
by charity. As charity is a work, therefore you see it 
teaches salvation by works, which is flatly contradictory 
of all the other Pauline epistles and uniform teaching in 
the Bible. Charity is also contradictory of the third verse 
of this chapter, which reads, "Though I give all my 
goods to feed the poor and have not charity.' ' Now you 
know T it can not be said of me I have not charity if I give 
all my goods to feed the poor, for in that case I would 
have charity in the superlative degree. This verse proves 
conclusively that "charity" is a wrong translation. Rob- 
inson's New Testament Greek Lexicon gives nothing but 
love as a translation of ' l agape " Hence the word "char- 
ity" in this chapter is simply a Roman Catholic perver- 
sion. In the 7th verse we have four superlative comple- 
ments predicated of "agape;" t. <?., love. This consti- 
tutes a quadruple argument, confirmatory of the conclu- 



52 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

sion that "agape" in this chapter does not simply mean 
love, but perfect love. 

4th to 7th verses inclusive, present a glowing descrip- 
tion of this divine "agape;" i. e., perfect love. And 
show up its irreconcilability with the assistance of that 
dark group of the malevolent affections; i. e., envy, jeal- 
ousy, pride, vanity, shame, selfishness, anger, and evil 
thinking. The English version says this love "is not 
easily provoked." "Easily" is not in the original; but 
the Holy Ghost says "Love is not provoked." When 
provocation comes love is no more, but anger has super- 
vened. Tradition says that King James, who had our 
English Bible translated, was a very high- tempered man 
Hence the translators inserted the word "easily" in order 
to ease his conscience, as he was the head of the English 
Church. The unsanctified translators flickered and added 
the word ' ' easily " rather than condemn their king. This 
instance corroborates the wisdom of our Savior in restrict- 
ing the gospel ministry to the sanctified. The unadulter- 
ated Greek reveals the doctrine of entire sanctification in 
a light one hundred per cent, stronger than the English 
version. Holiness is the theme of the Bible, not only fill- 
ing it but running it over. 

Though much of its beauty, glory, and richness has 
been dissipated by careless transcribers and unsanctified 
translators, yet it is literally inundated with the revela- 
tion of holiness to the Lord. There are two words in 
the Greek Testament translated "love" in the English; 
i. e. y "philia" and "agape." 

The former means human love and the latter divine 
love. Millions think they are Christians because they 
love the Lord, but it is only human love, they are stran- 
gers to divine love. This human love is indiginous in 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 53 

the fallen soul ; e. g. y we naturally love our children, par- 
ents, companions, and friends. But the wicked have 
this love, and with it they love the Savior, and at the 
same time do many beautiful deeds of philanthropy and 
charity. Blind preachers receive such into the church 
in platoons, on a profession that they love the Lord. 
"Agape;" i. e. y divine love is unknown to the unregen- 
erate. 

It is the divine nature (1 John 4), and can only be im- 
parted to us by the Holy Ghost. Rom. 5:5," The love 
of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost 
given unto us," should read, " The love of God is poured 
out into our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us." 
The Holy Ghost is God Himself. When in perfect sub- 
mission and abnegation of all sin, in utter desperation, 
realizing our meetness for hell-fire, we cast ourselves on 
the mercy of God in Christ, and by simple faith receive 
and appropriate His substitutionary atonement for us; 
then God in heaven hears our suppliant cry, imputes to 
us the righteousness of Christ, cancels our sins from 
heaven's chancery, and freely forgiving them all, counts 
us righteous for Christ's sake ; then the Holy Ghost who 
illuminated and convicted us of sin, inspired and indited 
our prayers for pardon, pours out into our hearts His own 
nature; i. <?., divine "agape;" i. e. y love of God, which 
regenerates us and makes us new creatures in Christ 
Jesus. 

Under the inspiration of this new nature we spontane- 
ously forgive all of our enemies ; carried away by the im- 
petuosity of this heavenly river we sweep out, inundating 
everything as we go; throwing our briarian arms around 
the world we gather the good and the bad into our bosom 
of love. If we have any enemies we hasten to wave 



54 Spiritual gifts and graces. 

over them the olive branch of peace, and gushingly tell 
them how much we love them. 

As God has cast all our sins into the sea of forgetful- 
ness, and we now have the divine nature, we hasten with 
enthusiasm to inundate all of our foes with a sea of heav- 
enly love. Bro. Godbey, is not this sanctification ? O no, 
it is only regeneration. 

This divine love has been poured out into a depraved 
heart. The tender lamb comes forth at midwinter into 
a snowbank. 

If the sunshine does not warm the atmosphere and melt 
the snow the lamb will freeze to death, so God's lambs 
encounter a wintry atmosphere in this world till the Pen- 
tecostal fire expels the frost, melts the snow, sanctifies 
them wholly, making Eden bloom and heaven come down. 
This divine love, i. e. nature of God himself, transforms 
us into the children of God. But this love does not de- 
stroy native depravity, it only gives us a great victory 
over it. It takes the cleansing blood to wash it away, and 
the refining fire to utterly consume it. If this divine ex- 
purgation does not come and exterminate the obnoxious 
weeds of native depravity out of our soul soil, they will 
spring up and choke out this heavenly exotic. 

The parenthesis of this chapter in the middle of the 
Pauline elucidation of the Spiritual Gifts, accompanied 
by the positive ipsedixit of the Apostles, sets forth the 
climacteric preeminence of the Graces. 

We must not only receive from the Holy Ghost the 
divine agape, i. e. love, but perfect love. We may have 
the Gift of Faith for others so as to remove mountains, 
yet if we don't have divine love we never can go to 
heaven. Baalim, the false prophet, i. e. the counterfeit 
preacher, had the Gift of Prophecy, and so did the animal 



SPIRITUAL GRACEvS. 55 

upon which he rode. Yet he was a sinner, and was slain 
soon afterward fighting against Israel in the Moabitish 
War. 

Caiaphas, the high priest of Jerusalem, who assigned 
the death warrant of our Savior, also received the Gift of 
Prophecy. 

Hence, we see the Spiritual Gifts are sometimes con- 
ferred on sinners, and frequently on the unsanctified. 

But their normal bestowment is with the sanctified. 

Hence these Gifts have always w r axed and waned with 
the experience of sanctification. You are not properly in 
position to receive and use them faithfully for the glory 
of God until you get sanctified wholly. You are saved 
and sanctified by the Graces, but empowered to save and 
sanctify others by the Gifts. 

As your personal salvation is more important to you 
than that of the w r hole world, hence the Graces constitute 
what is to you significantly, "The more excellent way '." 

THE GIFTS ALL FAIL. 

1 Cor. 13 : 8 : We find it stated here that prophecy shall 
fail. Knowledge shall fail, and all the glorious catalogue 
of the nine Spiritual Gifts shall fail. The Greek word 
" katargeos" occurs in this passage, descriptive of the 
destiny of the nine Gifts. This word is translated in this 
passage in the English Version. Now, reader, it is this 
word in Rom. 6: 6 which is translated "destroy, i. e. : 
" Our old man is crucified, that the body of sin ma} r 
be destroyed." Hence the dictionary gives it "to 
fail, to vanish away and to destroy." Now when 
shall these Spiritual Gifts be done away, i. e. fail, i. e. } 
be destroyed ? 

This question is answered in 1 Cor. 13 : 9 : ' 4 When that 



56 SPIRITUAL, GIFTS AND GRACES. 

which is perfect may come, then that which is in part 
shall be done away." 

PERFECTION. 

Perfect is from the Latin " facere" to make and "per''' 
complete. Hence it means a complete, that is, a finished 
state of anything. It is used prominently in the Bible 
exhibitory both of grace and glory. In Phil. 3: 12, 
where Paul disclaims Perfection, it means the Perfection 
of glory, following corporeal resurrection. In the fif- 
teenth verse of the same chapter, in which Paul claims 
Perfection for himself and others, it means the Perfection 
of Grace. 

In 1 Cor. 13: 9 it means the Perfection of glory, as 
Perfection is not received in justification, which removes 
actual sins, while original sin, though conquered by 
Grace, still remains. Hence sanctification (which is syn- 
onymous with Perfection, i. e. from "facere" " to make," 
and " sanctus" "holy") must come in to complete the 
work of spiritual salvation. 

Your spirit, i. e. heart, i. e, soul, is yourself. Hence, 
when your spirit is saved, you are saved. Therefore 
sanctification is full salvation, i. e. it completes the salva- 
tion of your spirit from sin. But in the wonderful 
scheme of redemption ample provision has been made 
for the rescue of y our mind from infirmities and your 
body from mortality. 

Thus in the glorious ultimatum not a vestige will be 
left for Satan to boast ; but our glorious Deliverer is go- 
ing to destroy sin and infirmities, which are the effects 
of sin, and conquer the devil on every embattled line, 
and finally exhibit in the presence of multiplied millions 
of admiring angels representing millions of unfallen 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 57 

worlds ; humanity redeemed from the fall, perfectly re- 
stored, soul, mind and body, incalculaby higher, better 
and happier than in the unfallen Edenic state. Now, 
when shall the nine Spiritual Gifts be done away, i. e., 
superseded? When glorification comes, z, e. y when we 
die. A moment's reflection will reveal to you the perti- 
nency of this conclusion. 

The nine Gifts constitute the Christian's panoply, 
with which to conquer sin and Satan and save the world. 
In life we stand on the battle-field, and must have the 
panoply, or suffer defeat and ruin. In death we rise to 
the Mount of Victory, and enter upon an everlasting 
triumph. 1 Cor. 13 : 11 : " When I was a babe, I spoke 
as a babe, I thought as a babe, I reasoned as a babe : but 
when I became a man I put away the things of baby- 
hood." If this means spiritual babyhood, then the Per- 
fection contrasted with it is Christian Perfection. 

But if the Perfection here spoken of is the Perfection 
of glory ; then the babyhood must be natural. Paul says : 
" When a baby I spoke as a baby, I reasoned as a baby." 
These statements do not indicate spiritual babyhood ; for 
in that case the highest intellectual culture and the most 
gigantic reasoning powers, along with the most gifted 
and eloquent oratory, may consist with spiritual baby- 
hood. Neither may it be said that Spiritual Perfection 
takes away these gifts of reason and speech. Again, the 
Perfection of verse 9 supersedes the Spiritual Gifts, i. <?., 
comes after they are done away. 

The normal order is : First, Spiritual Perfection ; sec- 
ondly, the eclipse of Spiritual Gifts, and, thirdly, the 
Perfection of verse 9.- Hence we conclude this is the 
Perfection of glory, and not the Perfection of grace. 
Now we have a double antithesis between the babyhood 



58 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

of verse 11 and the Perfection of verse 9. One foot of 
the antithesis stands at the cradle, and the other amid 
the glories of immortal worlds. Behold the swaddling 
infant, delighted with his toys, riding stick-horses and 
chasing butterflies. 

These childish foibles absorb his thought, evoke his 
puerile ratiocination, electrify his ambition and satisfy 
his highest aspirations. A half century wings its flight 
and is numbered with the years of eternity. Behold the 
man ! He is a Kepler, weighing the planets in scales, 
pursuing comets to the ultima-thule of the universe, and 
justly cognomened " legislator of the skies ; " or he is a 
Newton learning from the fallen apple the great truth of 
universal gravitation, hidden from all his predecessors ; or 
an Apostle Paul, wearing the tiera of a double graduate, 
confounding kings, conquerors, priests, and potentates by 
the profundity of his wisdom, the majesty of his logic 
and the intrepid heroism of his spirit, towering before 
the world the gigantic expositor of revealed truth. 
Reader, may the Holy Ghost flash in the light till you 
understand it, that you may see the wonderful ultimatum 
of this double antithesis. 

Thirty years ago I saw for the first time the first sus- 
pension bridge built across the Ohio at Cincinnati. 
My youthful mind was lost in wonder. The incredible 
mythologies of Horner, Hessiod, Pindar and Sappho de- 
scribing the paradoxical achievements of heroes and 
demigods, all passed in vivid panorama before me, and it 
seemed to me that certainly the giants of antiquity had 
risen from the dead and with Herculean hands and bri- 
arian arms erected the colossal superstructure spanning 
the majestic river and bringing Kentucky over into 
Cincinnati. 



SPIRITUAL GIFTS. 59 

Thus human genius tunnels all the mountains, bridges 
all the rivers, and mocks the broad Atlantic with sub- 
marine telegraphs. Now contrast these transcendent 
achievements with the foibles of babyhood and you have 
the first leap of this wonderful double antithesis. Now 
the second leap must transcend the highest achievements 
of meridian manhood as far as the manhood summit tran- 
scends the foibles of physical and intellectual babyhood. 
Blessed Holy Spirit, impart the illumination requisite to 
apprehend the infinitesimal possibilities lying out in the 
realm of coining eternity. 

" Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love, but the greatest of 
these is Love." 1 Cor. 13 : 13. 

This verse furnishes us the golden key with which to 
unlock these profound mysteries and reveal these stu- 
pendous wonders. The poet says, when we die, Faith is 
lost in sight, and Hope in full fruition dies. I would 
rather believe inspired Paul than the poet. 

You see from this Scripture that Faith will not be lost 
nor Hope die, but they will survive on forever. 

These three Graces, personified by the sisters, Faith, 
Hope and Charity, i. e., Love, are all resolvable into Love. 
Hope is love in anticipation, and Faith is love in execu- 
tion. The popular idea that heaven is a state of inactiv- 
ity, in which we will sit on a white cloud and shout 
hallelujah forever, is more poetical than Scriptural. As- 
tronomy reveals to us one billion and one hundred and 
seventeen millions of worlds, many of them vastly larger 
than this world. 

Belonging to our own solar system Neptune is sixty ; 
Uranus, eighty; Saturn, eleven hundred, and Jupiter, 
fourteen hundred times as large as this world. Hence 



60 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

we find this world is a very little thing in the universe 
of God. 

These one billion one hundred and seventeen millions 
of worlds are illuminated by one hundred and seventeen 
millions of suns, constituting the center of so many 
mundane systems. 

It has been ascertained that each one of these suns, 
attended by his mighty mundane system, is also revolv- 
ing round some far-off, primal center. 

Alcyone, of the Pleiades, is evidently that primal cen- 
ter, and is believed to be the capital of the Celestial Uni- 
verse, and to contain the city of the great King. Among 
all the countless worlds which constitute the Celestial 
Universe, presumptively, earth is the only apostate. 
Eph. 1:10, where the English Version says: " Christ 
came to gather together into one all things," the Greek 
is " ariakephelaioosasthai" L <?., to rehead all things in 
heaven and in earth. 

The Greek for heaven is " oura?wis" which here is 
in the plural, corroborating the Astronomical idea of 
a plurality of Celestial worlds. Col. 1 : 20 corroborates 
this Scripture. Hence we see that Christ came to restore 
this world, and to confirm all other worlds against the 
probability of apostasy, and thus eliminate sin with all 
its perturbations and irregularities out of the Universe. 

heij.. 

The Bible everywhere recognizes Hell beneath the 
earth. 

As Geology has revealed the fact that the interior of 
the earth is all on fire, science thus cogently corroborates 
the Scriptural Hell fire. Hence, during probation, Hell 



SPIRITUAL GRACKS. Gl 

is very convenient, and the thin crust of the earth is but 
a trap-door under the feet of the wicked. 

Our Savior repeatedly declares that the wicked shall 
be cast into the lake of fire, which is in outer darkness, 
and there to be tormented forever and ever. We read in 
Rev. 20 that Hell shall give up her dead when all men 
and devils shall respond to the archangel's trump and 
stand before the final judgment bar. It also says that 
Hell after the judgment shall be cast into the lake of fire, 
which is in outer darkness (Greek) the darkness which 
is without, i. e., the darkness which is outside of the illu- 
minated Universe. Now, how far would the combined 
illumination of one hundred and seventeen millions of 
suns transmit their light ? Now, the final dismal doom 
oi Satan, the fallen angel, and lost men and women, is so 
infinitely distant from the illuminated Universe that the 
combined illumination of one hundred and seventeen 
millions of glowing suns will never reach them with one 
cheering ray. 

So infinitely distant is this lake of fire that an angel, 
flying with the velocity of lightning, i. e. y twenty-three 
thousand miles per second, in a hundred thousand mill- 
ion of years, could not wing its flight through the inter- 
vening space and get back to the Celestial Universe. 
Then how will lost souls ever get there ? The Omnipo- 
tent arm can transmit them thither in the twinkling of 
an eye. Thus Hell, the devil and all the demons, fallen 
spirits and lost human beings are forever to be banished 
from the Celestial Universe. Unutterable doom of the 
lost ! Good Lord, deliver us. 

Thus the Omnipotent Christ, who came to destroy the 
works of the devil, will, in the finale, not only utterly 
destroy sin, but expurgate this world of sinners, banish- 



62 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

ing all the incorrigible, whether men or devils, beyond 
the circle of the created universe into outer darkness. 

THIS world. 

Popular theology, from time immemorial, has taught 
us that this world is to be destroyed, and actually to 
come to an end and be no more. 

That is utterly untrue. This popular mistake origi- 
nated from a statement of our Savior in his sermons 
on the judgments. In Matt. 24: 35, where it is said that 
He predicted the end of the world, the Greek word is 
not "cosmos" which means world, but "aeon" which 
means age, or time. In that notable sermon on the 
judgments our Savior predicts the end of the Jewish age, 
i. (?., the downfall of Jerusalem, the end of the Gentile 
age, when he shall judge the Gentiles and restore the 
Jews at his premillennial coming, also the end of time, 
when all shall stand before the final judgment bar. In- 
stead of this world coming to an end, the Bible plainly 
reveals (2 Pet. 3 and Rev. 21 and 22) that having been 
thoroughly sanctified by fire, this world is to be trans- 
formed into a Paradise and given as an inheritance to 
the saints, to be occupied by angels and redeemed spirits 
forever; meanwhile God and the Lamb as in other 
heavenly worlds will be here present, filling the new 
heaven (the atmosphere) and the renewed earth with 
their ineffable glory. 

Thus the Son of God interposes to redeem this world 
and fortify all other worlds, and thus in the glorious 
ultimatum banish sin and sinners from the Universe ; re- 
storing the pristine order of the divine administration in 
all worlds. This world was a part of the Heavenly Em- 
pire during the Edenic state. 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 63 

"Where sin abounded there did grace much more 
abound," (Rom. 5 : 20.) ' ' The glory of this latter house 
shall exceed the glory of the former. 1 ' Hence this world 
is not only to be restored to its Paradisian state, but 
greatly to eclipse unfallen Eden. 

TIME 

Is a parenthesis in eternity. The hitherto uninterrupted 
sweep of eternal ages was marred by the insurrection of 
Lucifer (Isa. 14: 12). When the Son of God came forth 
from the throne to espouse the cause of lost humanity, 
then time began. 

And it will continue co-etaneously w r ith the mediato- 
rial kingdom, which w r as inaugurated for the suppression 
of the rebellion and the restoration of the human race 
to divine loyalty. When Christ shall have consummated 
this stupendous work, then He will deliver up the me- 
diatorial kingdom to God, time will have an end, and 
the ages of eternity will move on as before the interrup- 
tion of sin. 

HEAVENLY EMPLOYMENTS. 

On arrival in neaven we will be met by our nearest 
relatives and the departed infants of our homes, who 
will have made so wonderful progress and received so 
vast development, as to occasion an introduction on the 
part of our guardian angels. Infants here soon progress 
into adult age. 

Heaven is so much better country than this that our 
progress will be infinitely more rapid. We think of 
meeting our friends in heaven as they left us. 

This is a great mistake. Immobility is incompatible 
with all finite beings. 



64 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACKS. 

We either progress or regress. As there is no regres- 
sion in heaven all the saints and angels sweep on for- 
ever in illimitable progression. We always think of a 
dead baby as a baby in heaven. 

This is a great mistake. It would not have remained 
a babe if it had continued in this life. As heaven is so 
much more favorable to growth, development, and every 
ramification of spiritual and intellectual prosperity, the 
babe will grow and develop there much more rapidly 
than in this world. 

Jesus says, the guardian angels who nurse and educate 
the infants in heaven, do always behold the face of their 
heavenly Father; i. e., they are held in a special appre- 
ciation, and enjoy peculiar honor and promotion with 
our heavenly Father. From this we learn that infants 
receive the especial attention of the guardian angels as 
nurses and teachers. 

Such will be the wonderful proficiency of our infants 
in spiritual and intellectual culture and knowledge, that 
they in all probability will become our teachers. 

Our facilities of learning in heaven will be ample and 
capacious, beyond all mortal conception. Doubtless we 
will learn more in a week than we ever knew before our 
arrival. We will enjoy most wonderful facilities in the 
way of teachers. Oh how we are edified as we sit at the 
feet of sanctified Paul and learn wisdom! But what 
will it be to listen to glorified Paul after he has explored 
celestial worlds two thousand years ! 

He was a mighty preacher here, and he was but a babe 
comparatively with his achievements after twenty cen- 
turies in glory. We are delighted with the preaching of 
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. But who can 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 65 

conceive their spiritual and intellectual status, after three 
thousand years in heavenly universities. 

Oh how edifying to sit at the feet of Elijah and his suc- 
cessor Elisha, after they have played on their golden 
harps thirty centuries! Enoch and Noah can tell us 
much about the antediluvian world and the flood. But 
who would be more edifying than Father Adam and 
Mother Eve who lived upon the earth a thousand years, 
after an unknown period in unfallen Eden ? 

Doubtless they can tell us many things about the 
Edenic state of the world which we have never known. 
But the unfallen angels whom God created long ages ago 
will be delighted to teach us volumes of interest of which 
we have never dreamed. 

CELESTIAL EVANGELISM. 

As the mediatorial work of Christ will restore this 
world from apostasy and rebellion back to its heavenly 
state, and reannex it to heaven, so it will also fortify all 
other worlds against the probability of apostasy. When 
God removes us out of this world it is highly probable 
He will have more use for us in some other world. 

Who would be more efficient preachers sent out to the 
inhabitants of a newly created world, than we who have 
passed through Satan's flint-mills and come up through 
great tribulations, having washed our robes and made 
them white in the blood of the Lamb? 

What would be more glorious than to join an evangel- 
istic band of glorified saints and angels, and fly away to 
some magnificent new-born world, and wing our flight 
hither and thither preaching the gospel of loyalty and 
consecration to the newly created inhabitants? The tel- 
escope reveals vast fields of nebulae, which are believed 



66 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

to be worlds in the process of formation. Jesus speaks 
of the many mansions being prepared in heaven, corrob- 
orating the idea of these innumerable worlds, many of 
which are now being created. 

One billion and one hundred and seventy-nine millions 
of worlds already discovered ! 

Oh what boundless evangelistic fields ! 

BRIDEHOOD OF CHRIST. 

In conversion we are betrothed to Christ ; but in sanc- 
tification we are married to Him. The Jewish damsel, 
under betrothal vows, was the legal property of her 
sponsor, though still dwelling in her father's family and 
subject to parental authority. The Hebrew word 
u Bue/a/i " means married. Hence all who live in Buelah 
Land are married to Christ. 

All of God's blood-washed saints will meet the de- 
scending Christ at his premillennial advent, and for- 
mally consummate the long-anticipated matrimonial 
alliance which was spiritually plighted in sanctification. 
Rev. 21 : 2. In the glorified state the saints will belong 
to the bridehood of Christ, while the angels will serve. 
1 Cor. 6:3, Paul says : " Know ye not that we shall judge 
angels?" Judge, in this Scripture, means rule. We 
know not to what extent the glorified saints will be asso- 
ciated with Christ in Celestial governments. To what 
extent the glorified Christ may use the honored mem- 
bers of his bridehood as his most reliable subordinates 
in the administration of the Celestial government 
throughout the multiplied millions of worlds constitut- 
ing the heavenly universe, is a theme quite worthy to 
evoke the grandest aspirations and fledge the pinions of 
the most transcendent hopes. 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 67 



HEAVENLY ACHIEVEMENTS. 

We are now reaching out toward the ultima-thule, of 
the illimitable possibilities, which await the glorified in 
the Heavenly state. We are still reaching after the 
ulterior arm of the double antithesis, set forth in 
1 Cor. 13 : 11. Just so far as the highest achievements 
of manhood transcend the foibles of babyhood, so far 
will the glorious possibilities of the Heavenly state 
transcend the grandest achievements attainable in this 
life. "Here we see through a glass darkly." The 
brightest light attainable in this world is but the dimmest 
starlight contrasted with the noonday glory of the me- 
ridian sun when compared with the cloudless day of the 
Celestial Universe. 

When a boy I w r as passionately fond of mountain 
scenery. With glowing enthusiasm I climbed every 
mountain I could reach. Erelong it was my privilege 
to cross the Cumberland Range. The highest summit 
was pointed out to me from a distance. Determined to 
stand upon its topmost pinnacle I set out on horseback, 
rode till my horse could climb the craggy steeps no 
more. Dismounting I proceeded on foot. Clinging to 
shrubs, roots and rocks, and sometimes climbing trees 
like a squirrel, my eye is on a lofty pinnacle jutting 
forth amid the clouds. 

With much toil and sweat erelong I reach the pin- 
nacle and stand upon the summit. Behold ! to my sur- 
prise another dizzy summit lifts its majestic brow far 
above my head. 

Of course I go for it with all my might and main, sur- 
mount the craggy steeps and gain the situation. But 
now I see another summit, whose acme is lost beyond 



68 SPIRITUAL GIFTS ANt) GRACES. 

the encircling clouds. With indefatigable perseverance 
I toil, scramble and climb till the clouds drop down be- 
neath my feet, and behold I tread the topmost crag. I 
then climb the tallest tree I can find on the summit. I 
can proceed no farther. 

From that tree-top I survey the Cumberland, Pine 
Mountain, Black Mountain, Blue Ridge, Alleghanies and 
their innumerable ramifications throughout Kentucky, 
Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. 

I am not yet satisfied, but more than ever thrilled with 
curiosity and admiration of the mighty works of an Om- 
nipotent Creator. I thought of my wings, which even 
then I held in vivid anticipation. The towering mountain 
ranges stand in gorgeous majesty around me, their pinna- 
cles pointing heavenward, in silent language, proclaiming 
their divine origin. 

My imprisoned spirit longs to leap from that tree-top, 
fly away and join the disembodied millions who, led by 
angelic escorts, w T ing their flight from world to world, 
exploring and admiring the wonders of Omnipotence. 

THE ILLIMITABLE POSSIBILITIES OF THE HEAVENLY 

STATE. 

Absolute perfection belongs to God only. Christian 
Perfection is received in sanctification, and belongs to this 
life. Angelic perfection is received in glorification when 
the soul evacuates the body, and the Heavenly State 
supervenes. 

This conclusion is authenticated by the response of our 
Savior to the question asked in reference to the woman 
who survived her seventh husband : ' ' Whose wife shall 
she be in the resurrection ? " He answered : ' ' In the res- 
urrection there will neither be marrying nor giving in 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 69 

marriage, but we will all be as the angels of God. ,, The 
Greek word "as the angels" is " isoiangeloi" which 
means equal to the angels. This statement of our Savior 
proves conclusively that the disembodied saints enjoy an- 
gelic perfection. 

All created intelligences are either progressing toward 
God or regressing toward Satan. A Christian, like a 
bicycle, falls the moment he ceases to move forward. 

Progress is an inalienable law of God's kingdom in this 
world, and infinitely more so in the Heavenly State, as 
the hindrances will all be removed. 

The shortness of life in this world is a great impediment 
to enterprise. Life here is so fleeting and uncertain that 
everything is restricted and embargoed with the contin- 
gencies of certain death. It is estimated that it would 
take twenty thousand men one hundred years to build 
the largest Egyptian Pyramid. Egyptian History im- 
putes the erection of the largest Pyramid to antediluvian 
times, when men lived a thousand years. The larger 
Pyramids are about ten times larger than the smaller, 
which were built in postdiluvian times, when human life 
had been cut down to one hundred years. God was will- 
ing for man to live a thousand years. But having tested 
him, he found such longevity unfavorable to piety, as 
the antediluvian world apostatized into wickedness. 
Hence in mercy he cut down human life to one-tenth, 
and even now doubtless human longevity is the greatest 
impediment to piety . 

If the millionaires of the present day could live a thou- 
sand years they would own all the world, fill it with 
bloodshed, tyranny and crime, and turn it into a pan- 
demonium. -.-.-> 

The glorified State, all sin not only having been extir- 



70 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

minated, but its effects forever obliterated, will in every 
respect perfectly harmonize with eternal life. The larg- 
est Egyptian Pyramid, covering eleven acres of ground 
with its massive superstructure, is to all generations a 
monument of human enterprise when life was prolonged 
a thousand years. 

Blessed Holy Spirit aid our infirmities, irradiate our 
understanding and wing our imagination to at least prox- 
imately conceive the wonderful Possibilities of the Heav- 
enly State. 

Here w T e run a camp-meeting ten days at most, sing 
c< God be with you till w T e meet again " and " Farewell, to 
meet where parting is no more." 

In Heaven we can undertake enterprises, not for ten 
days, but for ten thousand years, with the perfect assur- 
ance that we will live to see the end and join in the shout 
of triumph. Heaven has an atmosphere of love and 
boundless oceans of love. Thus we can fly and soar, 
bask and dive, as we learn from 1 Cor. 13 : 13, Faith, 
Hope and Love will survive forever. In this world Hope 
is the pioneer of all enterprise, while Faith comes on with 
heroic tread, battle-ax and sword. By the dint of stal- 
wart execution, very fine, the most sanguine anticipa- 
tions of Hope are realized. 

As we see here that Faith and Hope, as well as L,ove, 
survive mortality, and shout and shine forever, hence 
through all the flight of eternal ages, Hope will keep the 
wonderful future illuminated with new aspirations, pio- 
neering new enterprises, while Faith, holding pertina- 
ciously to the Omnipotent Arm, will laugh at difficulties, 
shout victory, and, with indefatigable powers, execute 
and verify the sublimest visions of Hope. We learn from 
our Savior (Luke 10 : 18) that the velocity of the dis- 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 71 

embodied spirits is twenty thousand miles per second. 
As the glorified body after the resurrection will be im- 
ponderable, therefore the velocity will be the same. 

Thus, doubtless, Heaven will be full of activity and 
enterprise for the acquisition and dissemination of knowl- 
edge, for sociality and festivity, the extension of our 
acquaintance and the reunion of friends and relatives, 
and for the Evangelization of the newly created inhab- 
itants of new-born worlds. 

THE DESTINY OF THIS WORLD. 

We learn from the panoramic prophecies that after the 
sanctification of this world by fire the Creative Arm will 
again interpose, transform it into a paradise (Rev. 21: 22), 
and confer it as a bonus on all the glorified saints (Matt. 
5: 3) as a reward of their heroic fidelity in ImmanuePs 
war against sin and Satan. 

John saw r (Rev. 21) the glorified bride; i. <?., all the 
saved people come down from heaven and take possession 
of the now celestialized earth with songs of triumph and 
shouts of victory to possess it forever. So while we can 
wing our flight from world to world throughout the vast 
celestial empire with the velocity of lightning, this world 
will be our glorified home in a peculiar sense. 

We are now fighting to win it from sin and Satan. We 
are sure to conquer, because, while our enemies are finite, 
our Leader is Omnipotent. This world will be celebrated 
in history, poetry, and song, through all eternity, as the 
battle-field of God's empire; where His Son met the host 
of sin and hell in a hand-to-hand combat, and gloriously 
vanquished them all, though He lost His own life on the 
battle-field. Hence through all the flight of eternal ages 
this world will be celebrated and constantly referred to by 



72 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

the inhabitants of all celestial worlds as the battle-field of 
God's empire. Hence I trow, as I wing my flight from 
world to world exploring, evangelizing, and everywhere 
with adoring wonder, contemplating the majest}^, beauty, 
and glory of Omnipotence, ever and anon some tall 
bright angel will accost me, "Are you not one of Imman- 
uel's soldiers who fought in that terrible war with sin and 
Satan, where our Lord Himself led the embattled host 
and lost His life in the perilous conflict ?" Then I will 
respond " Yea," with a tremendous shout of victory. By 
this time a shining group of radiant angels, arrested by 
the conversation, have halted — listening. Says he, "For 
ages I have heard much about that war and long to visit 
the battle-field. Will you be so kind as to become my 
escort?" 

I respond, "Amen, hallelujah," and soar away accom- 
panied by the delectable band of unfallen angels. 

We wing our flight through celestial ether, passing 
many bright, shining worlds inhabited by unfallen intelli- 
gencies, till the radiant glories, eclipsing a thousand me- 
ridian suns, shining out from this beautiful Paradisian 
orb flash upon our enraptured vision. There is no ship- 
wrecking sea, the sanctifying fires burnt it up. There 
are no icy poles, they, too, succumbed to the sanctifying 
fires. 

So the inhabitable earth is seven times as large as ever 
before; seas, oceans, poles, and deserts have yielded to 
the divine transformation, and now shine with more than 
Edenic splendor. The redeemed of all ages walk over 
this heavenly orb, millions of angels are moving hither 
and thither in all directions. 

They are constantly resorting hither from millions of 
unfallen worlds, to visit and explore the battle-field of 



- k SPIRITUAL GRACES. ' 73 

God's empire. This is one of the many mansions which 
He is preparing that His k^al intelligencies may appreci- 
ate, enjoy, and admire His glory forever. Now what has 
all this to do with Spiritual Graces? Much every w r ay. 

All Graces concentrate, evanesce, and unify in Love, 
which is the divine nature. 

Love is the divine side and Faith the human, while Hope 
is incipient Faith, and Faith is the substance of things 
hoped for. Calvinists lay great emphasis on Hope, and 
indulge in a hackneyed use of the word; i.-e., "I hope! 
am a Christian." There is nothing too dark for Hope. 
She- lights the jungles of the wilderness, and the valley 
of the shadow of death, with .rainbows of beauty and star- 
gleams foreboding the dawn. 

She retreats from no obstacles, but claims time and eter- 
nity for her conquest. She always leads the band, w r hile 
her Sister Faith, panoplied like Minerva for the battle- 
field, follows with heroic tread and shouts down the walls 
of Jericho. 

Then their younger Sister Love flies from the bosom of 
God, accompanied by cherubim and seraphim, and floods 
the soul wdth heaven. 

These three Sister Graces; Faith, Hope, Love, (Charity), 
the bright daughters of heaven responsive to the divine 
bidding, come down to this dark world of sin and sorrow 
to escort humble souls along the narrow way, through the 
pearly gate into the New Jerusalem. They enter our 
hearts in conversion, but encounter much antagonism till 
we are sanctified wholly. 

The removal of all antagonism out of the heart by the 
cleansing blood and the refining fire, is necessary to per- 
fect these Graces. Then we will have -doubtless Faith, 
cloudless Hope, and fearless Love, which constitute Chris- 



74 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

tian Perfection, and furnish a reliable guarantee of angelic 
perfection. 

Though you may possess all those wonderful Gifts; 
Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith (as a Gift, and not the Grace of 
Faith), Healing, Power, Prophecy, Discernment, Tongues, 
and Interpretation, so as to circumnavigate the globe on 
missions of charity, and yet be destitute of the Graces; 
Faith, Hope, and Love, you will lose your soul. Hence 
while the Gifts are wonderful and glorious and indispen- 
sable to your efficiency in the salvation of others ; well 
does Paul admonish us that the Graces are the more ex- 
cellent way (1 Cor. 12: 31). Oh the transcendent glory 
of the truth revealed in these three chapters; £. e., 1 Cor. 
12, 13, 14. No wonder Paul gives conspicuous preemi- 
nence to the Graces by parenthesizing them in the culmi- 
nating climax of his hyperbolical elucidation of the Gifts 
by inserting the 13th chapter, expository of the Graces. 

So reader, you must have the Graces to make your own 
calling and election sure. As it is dreadfully preposterous 
to think of taking the slightest risk on your own soul, 
you certainly will unhesitatingly settle forever the prob- 
lem of your own salvation by making the Spiritual Graces 
the sine-qua-?wn of your own experience every day, hour, 
and moment ; till all probation is passed and this mortal 
puts on immortality. 

Then like the eagle mounting up from his falling cage, 
bidding adieu to the tempests of war, }^ou will soar away 
to the Mount of Victory long surveyed by the eagle eye 
of Hope, while victorious Faith, solving the problem of 
perfect loyalty to the Almighty, perfect allegiance to the 
divine government and perfect obedience to the Holy 
Spirit, pursuant to the glowing aspirations of cloudless 
Hope, bounding away on never-tiring wings, conceiving 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 75 

enterprises which beggar the genius of poetry, the dy- 
namics of philosophy and the creation of imaginations, 
with a triumphant shout like that which knocked down 
the walls of Jericho, will wing her flight from world to 
world delighted to explore the wonders of Creative 
Omnipotence. 

Meanwhile Love, the brightest of the two (1 Cor. 13 : 13) 
inundates the soul with ravishing delights which are in- 
describable by mortal language. The Gift of Tongues, 
with other Gifts, will cease when this mortal puts on im- 
mortality, because it is impossible for mortal language to 
proclaim heavenly bliss and glory. 

When Paul was stoned at Lystra, and lay dead an hour, 
his soul mounted up to the third heaven, i. e. } the home 
of the saints (the firmament being the first heaven, the 
starry vaults the second heaven). There in the home of 
the glorified he says : ( ' he heard and saw things unlaw- 
ful to tell; " the Greek says: " impossible to tell." The 
truth of the matter is, Paul, master of many languages, 
could not reveal heavenly bliss and glory with mortal 
phraseology. Fortunate for us, our bodies wall also be 
glorified, and thus divested of mortality and materiality. 

Once in a revival I got up to preach and took my text 
in good faith. 

I lost my conscious environments, found myself lying 
on a bed in a family room and the people weeping all 
round me, thinking I was about to die. 

The Lord had opened heaven to my soul and flooded 
me with unearthly raptures so I could not stand on my 
feet. Heavenly rhapsodies would so paralyze these mor- 
tal bodies that if in heaven with them we could do noth- 
ing but lie prostrate on the golden streets and shout 
hallelujah forever. I am so glad that our bodies are to 



76 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

be restored, so they will never grow weary nor sleepy 
nor siek; neither will they have any weight, but, blythe 
buoyant and elastic as the birds of Paradise, respon- 
sive to the bounding impulses of the soul, they will wing 
their flight from world to world with the velocity of 
lightning. 

Remember not only every redeemed spirit but every 
angel is flooded with perfect Love to God the Father, Son 
and Hoty Ghost, but all the inmates of the heavenly 
universe will have perfect Love for one another. 

Every, angel I meet takes me in his arms and hails me 
as a brother in the great family of God. We will be sur- 
prised to find thousands and myriads of angels salute us 
*as old friends and precious loved ones. They have been 
our guardians and the guaraians of our ancestors for gen- 
erations before us, and the guardians of our children after 
us, camping round us by night, protecting us from dan- 
ger and death, and going forth with us by day, shielding 
us from a thousand dangers. O reader, }^ou must have 
the Graces, Faith, Hope, Love, and have them in their 
perfection, and thus make your calling and election sure. 
But I know you are not only determined to make sure of 
heaven, but you want to take with you as many as 
possible. 

Then to the Graces add the Gifts, and do n't be con- 
tenfwith one, two, three, for the Holy Ghost wants to 
give you the immortal nine. Care not for silver and 
gold, but come a beggar to the Holy Ghost and he will 
give you the true riches. Silver and gold, if laid up for 
your children, will probably pay their expenses to hell. 
God in condescending love enrich you with the glorious 
Graces — doubtless Faith, cloudless Hope and fearless 
Love — heaven's bright angelic trio, to lead you safe 



SPIRITUAL GRACES. 77 

along the narrow way, open the pearly portals and crown 
you victors in the city of God. 

And for the sake of Him who redeemed earth's lost 
millions with His blood confer on you the glorious Gifts 
— Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith (as a Gift for others), Bod- 
ily Healing, Spiritual Pow 7 ers, Prophecy, Discernment 
of Spirits, Tongues and Interpretation, that you, accom- 
panied by the immortal nine, may go forth like Bishop 
Taylor and Amanda Smith saying : "I am debtor to all 
nations, both savage and civilized," and, like Paul : "I 
am all things to all men that I may save some.'' Amen, 
hallelujah ! 



PERORATION. 



TRINITY. 

The Father, Son and Holy Ghost are the three per- 
sons who constitute the Adorable Trinity. They are not 
three Gods, but three persons of one God. 

What is the unpardonable sin or the blasphemy of the 
Holy Ghost? Matt. 12 : 31, 32. The blasphemy means 
contemptuous treatment of God. We treat Him with 
contempt when we slight His mercies and ignore His 
love and goodness. Hence the unpardonable sin is con- 
temptuous rejection and depreciation of the Holy Ghost. 

Why is the sin against the Holy Ghost unpardonable 
when all sin against the Father and the Son is pardon- 
able ? God the Father sits upon the throne of the uni- 
verse ; all worlds wheeling in their orbits responsive to 
His bidding. God the Son sits upon the Mediatorial 
Throne at the right hand of the Father in Heaven, and 
administers the Mediatorial Kingdom pursuant to the 
salvation of the whole human race. God the Holy Ghost 
is the Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of the Son. The 
spirit of man is the man himself. 

So the Spirit of God is God Himself (John 1:9.) 

John the Baptist says: " Jesus is the true light which 
lighteth every man that cometh into the world." 

Now comparatively few of the people who have lived 
in this world have heard of Jesus. But the Holy Ghost 

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PERORATION. 79 

who is the Spirit of Jesus is everywhere, and shineth on 
every human being, offering every one salvation. Hence 
the glorious possibility of universal salvation. But you 
see from this exegesis that the Holy Ghost is the only di- 
vine person on the earth since the ascension of Jesus into 
heaven. 

We reach the Father and the Son through the Spirit. 
Hence, when we blaspheme; i. e., treat with contempt ; *. <?., 
reject, and thus sin against the Holy Ghost, we thereby 
eternally forfeit our only medium to the Father and the 
Son. An eleemosynary institution is organized for the 
relief of all the beggars in the world. Its resources are 
inexhaustible. It is under the government of a triumvi- 
rate; one has his office in London, the world's metropolis ; 
another in New York, and the third person goes with the 
speed of an archangel, indiscriminately whithersoever a 
sufferer is to be found. This third person is the disburs- 
ing agent of the institution, through whom all must re- 
ceive its benefactions. 

Here is a beggar dying of starvation in a hovel. 
The agent of this philanthropy comes down to the bot- 
tom slumdom, looks with pity on him, and offers ample 
relief without money and without price. 

The dying beggar says: "Nay; I will not receive from 
you, as I do not like you, but I will receive from the man 
at London, or from the man at New York." 

The benefactor says: " Why, man, you are dying, and 
will be dead before you can possibly reach London or 
New York; besides you have no way to go." 

Thus the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Father and 
the successor of the glorified Savior on the earth (John 
16). Hence the miserable rejector of the Holy Ghost is 
hopelessly and eternally doomed. Consequently, all true 



80 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

religion is appropriately denominated "Holy Ghost re- 
ligion." All other religions are Satan counterfeits, and 
only serve as greased planks on which to slide into hell. 

You may have much error on other subjects with com- 
parative impunity, but an error on the Holy Ghost is 
perilous in the extreme. 

This is the dangerous heresy of the Campbellite dogma; 
it despiritualizes the Bible, and leaves it a lifeless corpse. 
To take the Holy Ghost out of the Bible is to disgospel- 
ize it and bring it down to a level with other good books. 
That dogma confounds the Spirit with the Word, and 
thereby repudiates the personality of the Holy Ghost. 

The Holy Ghost is none other than the very 
and Eternal God. 

Never use the neuter pronouns with reference to the 
Holy Ghost. 

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit/' 
should read the Spirit Himself. 

Never pray with reference to the Holy Ghost, Lord, 
"send it," but, "Lord, send Him." Why does our En- 
glish Bible refer to the Holy Ghost in the use of the 
neuter pronouns? In 1611, when our Bible was trans- 
lated, the church abounded in infidelity with reference to 
the Holy Ghost, regarding Him as an influence rather 
than the very and eternal God. Hence they referred to 
Him with the neuter pronouns. Is there any difference 
between the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit? 

None whatever. 

There is but one statement in the Greek; u e. y "Pneuma 
Hagion^ which is indiscriminately translated Holy Spirit 
and Holy Ghost. Therefore they are precisely synony- 
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PERORATION. 81 

THREE BELLIGERENT AGES. 

Satan has prosecuted the war against God on three dis- 
tinct battle-fields. The first great war period lasted four 
thousand years, in w 7 hich Satan turned all the battering 
rams of hell, and laid under contribution all the artillery 
of the bottomless pit, and subsidized all the powers of 
this fallen world against the Fatherhood of God, and in 
favor of Pagan Polytheism. 

He arrayed under his black banner the sublimest po- 
etry of Grecian bards, and the loftiest eloquence of Greece 
and Rome, and the profound, contemplative philosophy 
of India, with all the magical lore of Egypt, to vindicate 
the claims of Jupiter, Pluto, and Neptune. 

Again and again Israel yielded to the seductions of 
Polytheism, pandered to the allurements of a worldly re- 
ligion, and apostatized into idolatry. On this great bat- 
tle-field Satan suffered signal and final defeat, and Israel 
stood immovable four hundred years, loyal to Bible mono- 
theism, with no predelection in favor of heathen Poly- 
theism, Thus the Fatherhood of God was established, 
and has become the great dogma of the nations. The in- 
carnation of Christ stirred all the pandemonium, and in- 
augurated Satan's second great war period against the 
God of the Bible, turning all the powers of earth and 
hell against the Second Person of the Godhead. 

During the life of Christ on earth, the Apostolic and 
Patristic Ages which followed, Satan was against the Son- 
ship of God, monopolizing the powers of earth and hell. 
Satan raised up the Arian and Socinian Churches in the 
second century, whose great dogma was the denial of the 
divinity of Christ. 



82 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND GRACES. 

So the Arian and Trinitarian controversy racked the 
church with war and schism a thousand years. 

But Satan was signally defeated on the second battle- 
field, and the Sonship of God, the Christhood of Jesus, 
became an impregnable dogma of the universal church. 

With the Reformations of Luther and Wesley great 
and especial prominence has been given to the gospel of 
the Holy Ghost, the third person of the Trinity. Satan 
is no fool. He doesn't waste his ammunition on the air 
So long as a truth lies hidden in the recesses of oblivion 
and evokes no following Satan does not fight it. 

When we begin to preach and the people begin to be- 
lieve and get saved, then the devil begins to fight. The 
battle is now raging hot on the last battle-field, i. e., 
against the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Trinity. 

We hear much of opposition to holiness. That is a 
misnomer. It is not opposition to holiness, but to the 
Holy Ghost. 

If the Holy Ghost would evacuate the field Satan 
would call and send a million of preachers to preach holi- 
ness. The coming of the Lord is nigh. The devil, with 
all the hosts of earth and hell, is fighting in the last 
ditch. 

*' He has gone forth with a great rage," knowing his 
time is short. 

Our Lord is sure to conquer, and I am so glad that we 
are in the midst of the last period of Satan's wars. 

The battle is hot and heavy, but it will soon be over, 
and victory will perch upon the banner of our descend- 
ing Lord and King, and never wane amid the smoke of 
battle, but brighten through the flight of eternal ages. 

Reader, I hope you are on the winning side, saved and 
sanctified and panoplied with the nine Spiritual Gifts and 



PERORATION. 83 

filled with the Graces, inarching to the music of full sal- 
vation and shouting the battle-cry : " The world for Jesus. " 

" Me, glory summoned to the martial plains, 

The field of battle is the field for man, 
Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, 

The first in danger and the first in fame. (Glory). 

Reader, are you loyal to the Holy Ghost? If you 
want to be sanctified wholly, you have nothing to do but 
answer all of His questions in the affirmative and con- 
tinue to say "Yes" to the Holy Ghost. He will ask 
you questions wdiich no human being ever asked you, 
neither have you ever thought of all the questions He 
will ask you. But be sure you say " Yes " to them all. 
Do n't be afraid of his leadership. 

It will make your life a glorious sunshine. 

His leadership is always in perfect harmony with the 
Bible and Providence. Now, reader, may the Blessed 
Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of the Father and the Son, 
use these pages to help you understand His blessed holy 
Word and make them a benediction to your soul, and an 
inspiration to your life, that you may open your heart 
and welcome the Blessed Holy Spirit in to enrich you 
with all His wonderful Gifts and Graces, that your days 
may be many on the earth, and invested in full panoply, 
that you may draw your sword and throw the scabbard 
away, and ever march to the music that sounds no re- 
treat and drink at the fountain that never runs dry. Let 
us meet in the grand review of the blood-washed millions, 
and, to Him who hath redeemed us, sanctified, empow- 
ered and glorified us, give all honor and dominion for- 
ever and ever. Amen and amen. 

Dictated to Miss Effie O. Godbey, my dear and only 
living daughter. 

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Through the bright eternal years. 



From "Tears and Triumphs." 



-Tears and Triumphs. 

A valuable New Song Book for Revivals, Sunday Schools, 
Social Meetings and the Home. 

BY REV. L L PICKETT, REV. M. W. KNAPP AND PROF. J. R, BRYANT. 

With Choice Selections from Over Forty Musicians. 

192 PAGES. OVER 340 SONGS. 



WHY ANOTHER NEW SONG BOOK? 

1. Because there is need of touching 
solos — such as "Answered Prayer, " The 
Good Mother's Influence," and many 
more which the book contains. 

2. And of solid, convictive hymns. 

3. And of hymns on " Giving," "For- 
giveness," " The Family Altar," and other 
neglected themes. 

4. Also of a standard book published 
at a low price in "music made easy" as 
well as round notes so that all can use ti. 

5. Because the Holy Spirit prompted 
the making of the book and has enabled 
us to publish it. 

6. Because there is a demand for it. 
Over 2,000 were ordered before it was 
printed. 

IT IS FULL OF 

Glowing Music — Holiness and salvation 
songs. 

Tearful Music — Touching solos and ten- 
der appeals. 

Inspiring Music— Splendid invitations 
and valuable altar songs. 

Instructive Music— Clear teaching on 
different phases of salvation. 

Tictorious Music — Ringing songs of vic- 
tory over self, sin and Satan. 

New Music — Never before in print. 

Convictive, Awakening Music — Such as 
has been been left out of many modern 
books. 

Old Music — Such as no book is complete 
without. 



Diverse Music— Fitted for Revivals, Gos- 
pel Meetings, Sunday Schools, and the 
home. 

MUSIC MADE EASY. 

It is printed in round notes, and also 
in the "Music Made Easy" shaped note 
notation, so that its tunes can be easily 
mastered by the unskilled. It is also 

BEAUTIFULLY EMBELLISHED 

by four views from noted artists illustra- 
ting the Tears and Triumphs of Jesus, 
and by a page of half-tone pictures of 
two devoted bishops and four famous 
preachers. This alone to many will be 

WORTH THE PRICE OF THE BOOK. 

Though the book has 192 pages and 
240 songs, yet, looking for God's bless- 
ing upon its circulation, we have decided 
upon the following 

LOW PRICES.— MUSIC EDITION. 

Prepaid. Prepaid. Not Prepaid. 

Manilla, 20c. $2.00 per doz. $15.00 per 100' 
Boards, 30c. 3.00 per doz. 22.50 per 100. 

The music edition is so cheap that no 
word edition is needed. 

Special rates on large quantities. 

Try numbers 10, 12, 21, 51, 95, 116, 143 
and if you are not satisfied return the 
book and we w r ill return your money. 

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"0 sing unto the Lord a new song."-* 98: i. 

Over 10,000 Sold in First Three Months. 

TEARS AND TRIUMPHS in a charming way helps to heed the above 
inspired injunction. It is BEING RECEIVED WITH GREAT FAVOR, 

for which we praise God and thank its friends. It is just what we anticipated. 

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Our Offer. We will send a copy of 
"Tears and Triumphs," manilla, for only 
10 cents, to any paid-up subscriber to 
The Revivaust, old or new. 

To secure this, 30c. must be sent for 
The Revivalist and 10c. for the song 
book (40c.) directly to our office. 

We will also send it free to any one as 
a premium for two new subscribers, 30c. 
each. 

The Verdict 

of many persons is declared in the fol- 
lowing notices and others like them 
which we have not space to print : 

First-Class. It is filled with the most 
choice songs, many entirely new; the 
sentiment and poetry first-class, and the 
music the best. It is THE BOOK for 
Evangelists, Pastors, Sunday-schools 
and all Christian workers. Other song 
books are good, but we verily believe 
"Tears and Triumphs" is better, in fact 
the best published at the price. — The 
Methodist. 

Sound Theology. Pastor J. Thos. Pate, 
Greenville, S. C, says : " I have examined 
very carefully ' Tears and Triumphs.' It 
is a first-class book. Its theology is 
sound. Many of the songs are worth 
ten times the price of the book." 

A Fine Collection. Rev. E. S. Ufford, 
pastor Baptist Church, Williamansett, 
Mass., and author of the world-famed 
song, "Throw out the Life-Line" (No. 11 
in "Tears and Triumphs") writes: 
"Surely you have a fine collection of 
Gospel hymns, new, soul-inspiring and 
catchy." 

Delighted. "We are delighted with 
' Tears and Triumphs.' We shall use 
them."— Pastor U. G. Abbott, Moore- 
field, Ind. 

More than Pleased. "lam more than 
pleased with it. I think I cannot find 
its equal." — M. Strong, Iowa. 

" I and others to whom I have shown 
it are delighted with it. I accept your 



offer."— Rev. H. S. Hallman, Editor of 
Gospel Banner , Berlin, Ont. 

Another 1000 Wanted. " ' Tears and 
Triumphs' at hand. We are delighted 
with it. What will another thousand 
cost me? " — Evangelist W. H. Evans. 

Melting. "I think 'Tears and Tri- 
umphs a perfect gem. I have brought 
tears to the eyes of many by singing No. 
54, 'A Mother's Influence.'"— Cora B. 
Dodson. 

Effective. "My wife sang No. 144 last 
evening, and the result was wonderful." 
N. V. Rice, Neb. 

A Prophecy. " ' Tears and Triumphs' 
will and ought to have a tremendous 
sale. The shape notes are a grand help. 
I highly appreciate the topical index. 
The cuts in front are worth the price." — 
Pastor J. M. Smith, Slarkesboro, Vt. 

Not Narrow. 'Good for the home, 
the church, the revival, the Sunday- 
school; good for everybody and every- 
where." — The Liberator. 

Going Fast. "It has already been 
adopted by the Cincinnati Holiness 
League, also by the East Kentucky Ho- 
liness Association. President Hughes 
was much pleased with ' Cheerful Songs,' 
but says "* Tears and Triumphs' is better. 
He has adopted it for Asbury College. 
Rev. W. B. Godbey, evangelist and au- 
thor, says it is a gem, and urges the 
people to buy it. I have a fine list of 
testimonials, and the book is going 
fast."— Rev. L. L. Pickett. 

Soul-winning. " ' Tears and Triumphs' 
is the song book of the day. The songs 
it contains are soul-winners. The bless- 
ing of God is on this book. It is very 
popular here. Let everybody get a good 
supply. The devil can't stand such 
sweet, impressive gospel music." — Pas- 
tor L. G. Wallace. 

Not Disappointed. " The book is all 
that is recommended." — N. E. Cullom, 
Mill Creek, 111. 



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ist, and (b) to supply clear and concise teaching on the subject 
of experimental salvation, at so low a price as to be read, loaned, 
and given away, where more expensive books would not. 

Contributors. Volume I, " The Double Cure," is by the Editor 
of The Revivalist. Volume II, " Spiritual Gifts and Graces," 
is by Rev. W. B. Godbey. For the future numbers we are corres- 
ponding with Rev. S. A. Keen, with encouragement that he 
will furnish one issue with his forthcoming Salvation Papers. 
Rev. B. Carradine writes that he thinks he can furnish another 
issue. Rev. G. D. Watson is preparing for us a part or whole 
of one number on Beauty for Ashes, an experience which his 
many friends will be eager to read. We have also arranged to 
reprint Victory, by the author of Gifts and Graces, for one 
issue. We anticipate for our readers a rich feast of fat things. 

Price. The price is 30 cents per year, or if able and willing to 
pay more an annual Free-will Offering for the spread of such 
reading. Free to the destitute who request it. 

Premiums. Three subscribers for the price of two. Also the 
same premiums and commission as on The Revivalist, a sam- 
ple copy of which will be sent on application. 

Both for only 50 cents. For the present we will send both 
The Revivalist (30 cents) and the " Quarterly " (30 cents) to one 
address for only fifty cents. 

Commendations. Rev. S. A. Keen, from Washington, writes: 
" I think your Quarterly periodical a good idea. The Wesleyan 
Methodist referring to Volume I, says: " It is in every respect a 
good presentation of the subject, and in many things its superi- 
ority is strongly marked." Rev. J. W. Lent writes : " I have re- 
ceived the January number. It is a great help to me." 

An Appeal. Beloved, if you believe in an uttermost salvation, 
and want a part in the work and reward of spreading it, will you 
not aid? You can do so: 

By asking God what He would have you do to do, and then 
doing it. By subscribing and getting as many subscribers as you 
can. By selling, loaning and giving away as many copies as pos- 
sible. By asking God's blessing upon us and upon your efforts 
to aid us. By pressing the work at once. Time is flying, men 
dying, judgment nearing, hell yawing, and error reaping a tre- 
mendous harvest. 

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Book and its Theme. Pickett $1 00 

Central Idea of Christianity. Bishop Peck 1 00 

Christ Crowned Within. Knapp 75 

Christian Perfection as Taught by John Wesley. Wood 1 00 

Christian Perfection. Wesley , 25 

Christian Perfection. Godbey 25 

Christian Secret of a Happy Life. Mrs. Smith 75 

Coals of Fire. Watson 50 

Double Cure. Knapp 25 

Faith and its Effects. Mrs. Palmer 50 

Faith Papers. Keen 40 

Four D's After Sanctification. Stephan 25 

Full Salvation. Taylor 50 

Godliness. Mrs. Booth 50 

Heavenly Places. Annie Downey 1 00 

Hidden Manna. Baker 75 

Human Heart. Gill -. 40 

Inbred Sin. McLaughlin ?5 

Impressions. Knapp 50 

Inheritance Restored. Haney 1 00 

Leaves from the Tree of Life. Pickett 1 00 

Living Waters. Baker 1 00 

Love Abounding. Watson 1 50 

New Testament Standard of Piety. McDonald 50 

Old Corn. Updegraff. 1 25 

Out of Egypt Into Canaan. Knapp 80 

Praise Papers. Keene 25 

Perfect Love. Wood 1 00 

Revival Kindlings. Knapp 1 00 

Spiritual Life. Potts 60 

Spiritual Gifts and Graces. Godbey 25 

Sanctification. Carradine 80 

Second Blessing in Symbol. Carradine 1 00 

Twenty Objections to Church Entertainments. " Paper.. 30 

The Double Cure, or National Camp-Meeting Echoes 1 25 

White Robes. Watson 50 

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